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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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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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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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