High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANESLook 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.
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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.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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!
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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