It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
AristophanesMots clés logic
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
AristophanesMots clés 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.
AristophanesMots clés 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.
AristophanesMots clés 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.
AristophanesMots clés 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.
AristophanesMots clés 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.
AristophanesMots clés 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.
Mots clés humor women feminism
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