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.
ARISTOPHANESThis is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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