The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESTimes change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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By words the mind is winged.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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A slave is but half a man.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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