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Aristophanes

Quote of Aristophanes - Let each man exercise the art...


Biography - Aristophanes:

Comic playwright of ancient Athens.
Born: -446 - Died: -386
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Let each man exercise the art he knows.



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Quotes for: art


Quotes

Quotes about art:


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





My trade and art is to live.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











Quotes

Aristophanes also said...


You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.





Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.





You can never soften the skin of a hedgehog.





Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.





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.





A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.












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