Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANESTo plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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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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