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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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