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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Change Time Today Vices
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
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
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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