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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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 honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

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

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