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Aristophanes

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“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”

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“A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.”

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“Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.”

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“Evil events from evil causes spring.”

Source/Notes: Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds (1812 edition)

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“High thoughts must have high language.”

Source/Notes: The Frogs (1955 edition)

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“Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.”

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“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”

Source/Notes: Aristophanes with the English translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers (1960 edition)

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

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“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.”

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“Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.”

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“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”

Source/Notes: Variant: "Then quick bring me a pitcher full of wine, that I may wet my mind, and speak to some good purpose." From: The Comedies of Aristophanes, Volume 1 (1837), translated by Charles Apthorp Wheelwright, p. 299, "The Knights", Act I, Scene I

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“Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?”

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“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”

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

Source/Notes: Lysistrata: an English version by Dudley Fitts (1954 edition)

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