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

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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANES

Climbing Lie Necessary Success
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANES

Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
ARISTOPHANES

Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Fear Poor
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Politician Voice
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANES

Deceit Deceived Money
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
ARISTOPHANES

Egg Food Kissing
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANES

Care Salary Vote Yourself
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
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings

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