Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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