The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESThe gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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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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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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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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A slave is but half a man.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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By words the mind is winged.
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