There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANESYou 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.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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