Evil events from evil causes spring.

Quote by Aristophanes

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The wise learn many things from their enemies.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and...

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and...

High thoughts must have high language.

High thoughts must have high language.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their...

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their...

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon...

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon...

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live...

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live...

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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

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

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

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

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

To be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies

To be insulted by you is to be garlanded with lilies

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

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

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just...

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just...

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God...

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God...