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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself

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