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I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.
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By words the mind is winged
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Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?
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On the nightingale:
Lord Zeus, listen to the little bird's voice; he has filled the whole thicket with honeyed song.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Aeschylus: It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Yet I have not been seen frequenting the wrestling school intoxicated with success and trying to seduce young boys; but I took all my theatrical gear and returned straight home. I pained folk but little and caused them much amusement; my conscience rebuked me for nothing. Hence both grown men and youths should be on my side and I likewise invite the bald to give me their votes; for, if I triumph, everyone will say, both at table and at festivals, Carry this to the bald man, give these cakes to the bald one, do not grudge the poet whose talent shines as bright as his own bare skull the share he deserves.
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Blest the man who possesses a
Keen intelligent mind.
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Informer:
My friend, I am asking you for wings, not for words.
Pisthetaerus:
It's just my words that gives you wings.
Informer:
And how can you give a man wings with your words?
Pisthetaerus:
They all start this way. [...]
Informer:
So that words give wings?
Pisthetaerus:
Undoubtedly; words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven. Thus I hope that my wise words will give you wings to fly to some less degrading trade.
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[We] must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us.
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Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay, unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and dreamlike.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Haven't you sometimes seen a cloud that looked like a centaur? Or a leopard perhaps? Or a wolf? Or a bull?
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Man is a truly cunning creature.
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Born:
446 BC
Died:
386 BC
(aged 60)
Bio:
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaeum, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his thirty plays survive virtually complete.
Known for:
Lysistrata
The Frogs
The Clouds
The Birds
The Acharnians
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