You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESAn actor should refine public taste.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long 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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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 is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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By words the mind is winged.
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