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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
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Father of Comedy
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Horrible
Politician
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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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Old age is but a second childhood.
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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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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 often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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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 old are in a second childhood.
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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