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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Father of Comedy
Popular
Horrible
Politician
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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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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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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