A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANESDo not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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An actor should refine public taste.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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