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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.

Aristophanes

The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity

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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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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