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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
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
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

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