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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
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 man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice

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