Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
long people justice
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
ignorance forever stupidity
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
life wise wisdom
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
clever wine mind
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
stupid ignorance forever
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
children men humanity
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!
men wings giving
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.