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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?

Aristophanes

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
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 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
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice

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