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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
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
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
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

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

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