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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.

Aristophanes

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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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

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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