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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty

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