You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANESToday things are better than yesterday.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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A slave is but half a man.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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