A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANESThe gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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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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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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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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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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