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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

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