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12 Quotes for 'Aristophanes' in the Database.
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Aristophanes Quotes
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The old are in a second childhood.
Topic: Age
Source: The Clouds (l. 1417)
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By words the mind is winged.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.
Topic: Character
Source: see Plutarch's "Life of Alcibiades" (Langhorne's translation)
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a
Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
Topic: Clouds
Source: Clouds, (Gerard's translation)
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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.
Topic: Death
Source: Fragment (II), translation by Cumberland
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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.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle
four-cornered.
Topic: Geometry
Source: concerning the problem of squaring the circle
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Topic: Hunger
Source: None
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.
Topic: Man
Source: Birds, translation by John Hookham Frere
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The wise learn many things from their foes.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Topic: Vice
Source: The Clouds
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