A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANESYou vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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By words the mind is winged.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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