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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

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
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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Friendship Wall War
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
ARISTOPHANES

Justice Long Ourselves People
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success

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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