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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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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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Believe Evil Hands
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness 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
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
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
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
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word

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