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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Aristophanes

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

Ethics Fairness Justice
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES

Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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.
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Friendship Wall War
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

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