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Comedy is allied to justice.

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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People

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