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Aristophanes [-448--380] Greek

Rank: 101
Poet, Playwright

Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete.

Travel, Art, Inspirational, Politics, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Under every stone lurks a politician.	Politics	101
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.		102
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.	Wisdom	103
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.		104
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.		105
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.		106
The wise learn many things from their enemies.		107
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.		108
Let each man exercise the art he knows.	Art, Inspirational	109
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.		110
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.	Travel	111
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?		112
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.		113
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.	Travel	114
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.		115
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.		116
High thoughts must have high language.		117
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.		118
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.		119
Evil events from evil causes spring.		120

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