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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.

Aristophanes

Greek Poet

Died: 380 BC

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War, Walls, Enemies, Men, Building, Sense, Lesson, Cities, Foes, High, Learn, Ships, Friends, Often

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Aeschylus, Archilochus, Euripides, Hesiod, Homer, Menander, Pindar, Sophocles

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