Quotes by Aristophanes

Aristophanes

Ancient Greek comic playwright

Alive from: 446BC-386BC

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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  Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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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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  Evil events from evil causes spring.

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  High thoughts must have high language.

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  Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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

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

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

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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.