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The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
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
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
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size

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