I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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A slave is but half a man.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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