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An actor should refine public taste.

Aristophanes

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself

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