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Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
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Quote 1

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

Quote 2

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Quote 3

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

Quote 4

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Quote 5

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Quote 6

Under every stone lurks a politician.

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

Quote 8

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.

Quote 9

High thoughts must have high language.

Quote 10

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Quote 11

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

Quote 12

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

Quote 13

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Quote 14

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

Quote 15

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.