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

Aristophanes

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Justice Long Ourselves People
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Wall War
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!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Change Time Today Vices
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANES

Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste

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

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

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