First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANESMen 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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A slave is but half a man.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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