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

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
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Father of Comedy
Characteristics
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Popular
Horrible
Politician
Voice
Breeding
Vulgar

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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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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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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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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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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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