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

Aristophanes

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Egg Food Kissing
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake

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