A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANESTo plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury 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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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.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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