The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESA man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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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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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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