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.
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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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By words the mind is winged.
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