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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
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
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
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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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