Sausage-Seller: 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.
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Dialog aimed at the politician Cleon, symbolizing demagogues for the author.Aristophanes
Demosthenes [to the Sausage-Seller]: Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. Besides, you 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.
(tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)Aristophanes
Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing.
(tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)Aristophanes
Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
(tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278)
(tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)Aristophanes
Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you
(tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)Aristophanes
Chremylus: [Wealth], the most excellent of all the gods.
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