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.

More Quotes by Aristophanes

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

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.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.