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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.

Aristophanes

A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Break Thinking Try
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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

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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