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.
ARISTOPHANESEvil events from evil causes spring.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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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 can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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