Aristophanes

“By words the mind is winged.”

“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”

“High thoughts must have high language.”

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”

“Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.”

“A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.”

“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”

“There is no beast so savage as a man when he is possessed of power equal to his passion.”

“Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they forget their sacred promises, plunder the people, and betray the state.”