Aristophanes Quotes

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• Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
• Let each man exercise the art he knows.
• Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
• Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
• 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…
• Under every stone lurks a politician.
• A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
• High thoughts must have high language.
• Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls…
• Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
• The wise learn many things from their enemies.
• Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
• A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
• Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness,…
• Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
• Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
• Old age is but a second childhood.
• The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
• If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start…
• The old are in a second childhood.

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