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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Aristophanes

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
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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Mind Mouths Yourself
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

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