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An actor should refine public taste.

Aristophanes

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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
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
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
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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Believe Evil Hands

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