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An actor should refine public taste.

Aristophanes

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
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
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine

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