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Aristophanes
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Aristophanes?
→ Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
→ The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
→ Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
→ A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Pick the quote attributed to Aristophanes.
→ Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
→ Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
→ Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
→ Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Select the quotation attributed to Aristophanes.
→ Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
→ All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
→ Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
→ Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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One of these may be attributed to Aristophanes. Which one?
→ It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
→ You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
→ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
→ We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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Which one of these belongs to Aristophanes?
→ He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
→ Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
→ Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
→ As dreams are the fancies of those that sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those awake.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Aristophanes?
→ Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
→ The secret of getting things done is to act.
→ Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
→ You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Aristophanes.
→ Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
→ It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
→ High thoughts must have high language.
→ If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Aristophanes. Which one?
→ Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
→ A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
→ Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
→ A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Aristophanes?
→ Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
→ The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
→ The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
→ Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Aristophanes.
→ Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
→ Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
→ A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
→ Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
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