Today Quotes
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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B.C.
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.
Under every stone lurks a politician.Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh?Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B.C.
High thoughts must have high language.Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B.C.
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.Zeuxis
Friends have all things in common.Plato, Dialogues, Phaedrus
The unexamined life is not worth living for man.Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology