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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice

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