Facts about Aristophanes

Occup.	Poet
From	Greece
Born	448 BC
Died	380 BC

Summary

Aristophanes was a famous Poet from Greece, who lived between 448 BC and 380 BC.

Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Aristophanes, under the main topic Travel.

Related authors: Menander (Poet), Antiphanes (Writer), Erich Segal (Novelist)

20 Famous quotes by Aristophanes

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

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

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

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

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"Let each man exercise the art he knows"

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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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"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers"

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"Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you"

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"High thoughts must have high language"

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"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe"

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"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"

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

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"Evil events from evil causes spring"

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"You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say"

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"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight"

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"Hunger knows no friend but its feeder"

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"Under every stone lurks a politician"

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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"

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"The wise learn many things from their enemies"

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