Aristophanes

Ancient Greek comic playwright

Lived from: 446BC-386BC

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Quotes: Aristophanes

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  A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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  A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

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  By words the mind is winged.

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  High thoughts must have high language.

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  Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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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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  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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  Under every stone lurks a politician.

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  Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

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

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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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  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.

About Aristophanes

Aristophanes (circa 446 – circa 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it.

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