Author: Aristophanes

Quotes

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 and ships of war.

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 and ships of war.

- Aristophanes

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

- Aristophanes

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.

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.

- Aristophanes

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

- Aristophanes

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

- Aristophanes

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

- Aristophanes

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

- Aristophanes

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

- Aristophanes

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