A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.

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

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

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.