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.
ARISTOPHANESThou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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