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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
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word

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