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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

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
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice

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