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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Politician Voice

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