A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
Just Cause: not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy.
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Just Discourse: Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Poet: Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic. Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! You (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet.
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Epops: A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Chorus : Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing.
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Chorus : Man is naturally deceitful ever, in every way!
Chorus : Man is a truly cunning creature.
Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! Not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing.
Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, We must refrain from every depth of love.. Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep?
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Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
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