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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

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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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice

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