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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
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
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel

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