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"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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About Aristophanes

Aristophanes was an ancient Greek comic playwright of classical Athens and the most important surviving representative of Old Comedy. His plays, including The Clouds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs, are key sources for Athenian political and social life.

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