Aristophanes Quotes

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

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High thoughts must have high language.

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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

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[Y]ou 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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Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

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You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.

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