The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESThou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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