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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
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
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life 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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