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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.

Aristophanes

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANES

Deceit Deceived Money
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Father Happiness Men
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANES

Climbing Lie Necessary Success
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANES

Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide

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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