A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Quote by Aristophanes

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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.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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...

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

High thoughts must have high language.

High thoughts must have high language.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives

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?

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

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.

The wise learn many things from their foes.

The wise learn many things from their foes.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

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...

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.

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...

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.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously,...

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously,...

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one...

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one...

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.