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Ability (n.) is like a tree without fruit when it is without education.
A Demagogue (n.) is in possession of a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place.
A Demagogue (n.) is like a fisher for eels. In still waters he can catch nothing, but if he thoroughly stirs up the slime, his fishing is good... in the same way it's only in troublous times that the demagogue lines his pockets.
A Demagogue (n.) is necessarily neither an educated nor an honest man... he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Desire (n.) is each half of a man cut in two by Zeus, longing for its other half, throwing its arms about it, eager to grow into one.
God (n.) has one overlooked proof of existence, offered by a slave in Aristophanes: I feel the gods persecute me and hate me, in spite of everything I do to please them.
Hunger (n.) is ignorant of all friends but its feeder.
Life (n.) is a farce and those who have laughed the most have lived the best.
Love (n.) is the two halves of a creature Zeus cut in two "like a sorb-apple halved for pickling," throwing their arms around each other, eager to grow into one.
Love (n.) divested of all transcendence seeks but a connatural being, a sister soul, and presents itself as incest — the myth of the two reunited halves interprets the adventure as a return to self.
Lover (n.) pass their whole lives together yet cannot say what they want from one another — beyond pleasure.
Wine (n.) makes the mind wet and allows one to say something clever.