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
wine men ideas
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, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.
wine men good-man
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
wine men busy
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
prayer wine pointless
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
clever wine successful
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 I may wet my mind and say something clever.
clever wine mind
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
greek-poet until
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
believe greek-poet surely
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
desire greek-poet love name pursuit simply
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
voice politician breeding
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
best-friend travel two
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.
witty political politics
Under every stone lurks a politician.
art fees
There's no art where there's no fee.
adversity grace trying
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.