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Old age is second childhood.

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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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
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
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
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
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty

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