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An actor should refine public taste.

Aristophanes

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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law

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