A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANESMen 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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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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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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