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Aristophanes's Quotes

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.


All evil thoughts and profane be still; far hence, far hence from our choirs depart, who knows not well what the Mystics tell, or is not holy and pure of heart.

High thoughts must have high language.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.


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Aldo Manuzio mentions, as though it were a matter of common notoriety, that Saint Chrysostom is recorded to have set such store by Aristophanes, that twenty-eight of the poet's Comedies were never out of his bands, and formed his pillow when he slept and that from this source he was thought to have drawn his marvellous eloquence and austerity. It is not known upon what authority Manuzio founded this statement; but it must have been made, one would suppose, with the concurrence of the eminent Cretan scholar, Marco Musuro, who superintended the preparation of this (the Aldine) edition of the Comedies of Aristophanes. And the particularity of the detail, that the saint's copy consisted of twenty-eight Comedies, makes it probable that the writer was relying on some specific authority, rather than on any general
recollection or belief of his own.