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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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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.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
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
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
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel

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