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• You have all the characteristics of a popular politicia
  a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. -- Aristophane...
• By words the mind is winged -- Aristophanes (c. 450-385 B.C.) -- The Birds (414 B.C.), line 1447
• The wise learn many things from their foes. -- Aristophanes (c.
  450-385 B.C.) -- The Birds (414 B.C.), line 375...
• It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
  -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 385...
• It may be all right to be content with what you have; never with what you are. -- B.C. Forbe
• A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 346...
• Politician: Breeding form of lawers.
• For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea
  and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice....
• When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. -- Cicero (B.C. 106-43)