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.
ARISTOPHANESChildren have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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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.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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