"The wise learn many things from their foes." — Aristophanes
"The wise learn many things from their foes."
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Aristophanes
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59 Quotes by Aristophanes
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
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More Foes Quotes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
— Michele Bachmann
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows
— Tupac Shakur
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The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here…
— Paul Fleischman
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We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly…
— David Lloyd George
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Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
— William Shakespeare
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Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see…
— Billy Graham
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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's…
— John Polkinghorne
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It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our…
— John Henry Jowett
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Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining…
— Peter Canisius
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