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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious 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
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

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