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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 demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Believe Evil Hands
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANES

Today Yesterday
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
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
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
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

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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