To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANESHunger knows no friend but its feeder.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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Open your mind before your mouth.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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