The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESHow can I study from below, that which is above?
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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!
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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