An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANESHow can I study from below, that which is above?
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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