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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.

Aristophanes

Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
ARISTOPHANES

Believe Evil Hands
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Force Truth
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men

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.

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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.

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