A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANESA demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANESDo not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
ARISTOPHANESEvil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESBy words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANESWhen men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANESIt is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANESTo plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANESIt often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANESWhen men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESDo not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANESWhat unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESHow can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANESHigh thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANESYou can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANESDoes 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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