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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
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

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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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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