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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 conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

Aristophanes

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANES

Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANES

Army Leadership Skill
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
ARISTOPHANES

Darkness Dream Race
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
ARISTOPHANES

Egg Food Kissing

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 conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

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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 conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

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