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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself

Open your mind before your mouth.

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