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How can I study from below, that which is above?

Aristophanes

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty

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