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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
AristophanesAristophanes Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
AristophanesAristophanes Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
AristophanesAristophanes To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
AristophanesAristophanes Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
AristophanesAristophanes Do not take a blind guide.
AristophanesAristophanes Open your mind before your mouth.
AristophanesAristophanes 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.
AristophanesAristophanes A slave is but half a man.
AristophanesAristophanes What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
AristophanesAristophanes An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
AristophanesAristophanes Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
AristophanesAristophanes High thoughts must have high language.
AristophanesAristophanes Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
AristophanesAristophanes The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
AristophanesAristophanes Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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