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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

Aristophanes

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
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
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
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

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