Aristophanes

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.

— Aristophanes

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

— Aristophanes

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

— Aristophanes

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

— Aristophanes

By words the mind is winged.

— Aristophanes

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

— Aristophanes