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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Aristophanes

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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People Together Winning
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
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
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
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.
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Age Father Happiness Men
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

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