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Today things are better than yesterday.

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Poet
Father of Comedy
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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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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests hence the state limps along.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
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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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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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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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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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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is 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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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived she understands deceit too well herself.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Do not take a blind guide.
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