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

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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
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself

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