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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning

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