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Aristophanes Quotes about Children

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Aristophanes
Children, Poet, Masters

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

Aristophanes
Children, Men, Way
"Birds". Comedy by Aristophanes, 414 BC.

You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

Aristophanes
Wall, Children, War
Aristophanes (1812). “Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds”, p.434

Old age is but a second childhood.

Aristophanes
Children, Childhood, Age
Clouds (1417) (transl. Thomas Mitchell)

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!

Aristophanes
Children, Men, Humanity
Aristophanes, John Hookham Frere (1839). “The Birds: Intended to Convey Some Notion of Its Effect as an Acted Play, and to Illustrate Certain Points of Dramatic Humour and Character Discoverable in the Original”, p.38

Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.

Aristophanes
Sex, Husband, Children
Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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