To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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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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Open your mind before your mouth.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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