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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

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