Occupation: Playwright Birth: 444 Bc Death: 385 Bc
Let each man exercise the art he knows..
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high..
It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll ….
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet..
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men..
Do not take a blind guide..
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets..
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight..
Evil events from evil causes spring..
You cannot make a crab walk straight..
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath..
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say..
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me..
Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everythin….
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that ….
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our croc….
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. ….
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself..
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict sci….
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!.
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe..