You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANESOne bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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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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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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