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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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