Under every stone lurks a politician.
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AristophanesAristophanes First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
AristophanesAristophanes 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.
AristophanesAristophanes A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
AristophanesAristophanes A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
AristophanesAristophanes Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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AristophanesAristophanes To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
AristophanesAristophanes Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
AristophanesAristophanes Do not take a blind guide.
AristophanesAristophanes Open your mind before your mouth.
AristophanesAristophanes 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.
AristophanesAristophanes A slave is but half a man.
AristophanesAristophanes What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
AristophanesAristophanes An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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