It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
AristophanesStichwörter: logic
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
AristophanesStichwörter: politics hypocrisy elections government popularity falsehood promises
[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.
AristophanesStichwörter: nature language selfishness character government greed administration voice politicians attributes marketplace barter human-voice demagoguery
You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.
AristophanesStichwörter: peace greed materialism disdain vice fishing trouble politicians eels filth unrest unclean demagoguery grime slime upheaval
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
AristophanesStichwörter: wisdom men women foolishness disagreement quarrel alliance
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
AristophanesStichwörter: injustice wealth selfishness corruption poverty greed politicians self-interest public-service intrigue
How can I study from below, that which is above?
AristophanesHOROVOĐA MUŠKOG HORA:
Ni sa kojom zverkom no sa ženom
nije teži boj,
nit je oganj tako nit je panter
besan ijedan.
HOROVOĐA ŽENSKOG HORA:
To ti znadeš, al opet, rđo,
sa mnom ratuješ,
a ja verna mogla bih ti biti
prijateljica?
Under every stone lurks a politician.
AristophanesStichwörter: humor politics politicians
Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...
Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!
Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.
Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.
Stichwörter: humor women feminism
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