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The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
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
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
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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

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