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Aristophanes (c. 446 BC - c. 388 BC) was a Greek Old Comic dramatist..

"Wise men learn many things from their enemies."

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

Aristophanes on wisdom
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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."

Aristophanes on women
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"By words the mind is winged."

Aristophanes on words
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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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"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls."

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