Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
ARISTOPHANESYou cannot make a crab walk straight.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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 mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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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 demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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