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Aristophanes quotes

Greek Poet December 31, 0445 – December 31, 0385

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Aristophanes quote: "Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the..."
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes
Aristophanes quote: "Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole."
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. Aristophanes
Aristophanes quote: "Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still..."
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. Aristophanes
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. Aristophanes
Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way. Aristophanes
Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider. What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that. Aristophanes
Aristophanes quote: "It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn..."
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls Aristophanes
Aristophanes quote: "Hunger knows no friend but its feeder."
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. Aristophanes
Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds! We shall see them building ships, and fighting sea-fights like Artemisia; nay if they want to mount and ride as cavalry, we had best cashier the knights, for indeed women excel in riding, and have a fine, firm seat for the gallop. Just think of all those squadrons of Amazons Micon has painted for us engaged in hand-to-hand combat with men. Aristophanes
Lysistrata: Oh, Calonic, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly... Calonic: And they are quite right, upon my word! Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming. Calonic: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child... Aristophanes
You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. Aristophanes
Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil! Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business. Aristophanes
Aristophanes quote: "Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated,..."
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. Aristophanes
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing. Aristophanes
Aristophanes quote: "Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's..."
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Aristophanes

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