You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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