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- You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Knights, 424 B.C.
- 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. - Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.
- Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh? - Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Frogs, 405 B.C.
- No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Apology
- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
- The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
- He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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