Aristophanes quotes

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Aristophanes

To be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies.

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Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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The wise learn many things from their foes.

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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought. Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land. Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.

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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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High thoughts must have high language.

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Under every stone lurks a politician.

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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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

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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.

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

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The wise learn many things from their enemies.

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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

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

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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