To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Look 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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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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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