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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.

Aristophanes

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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves

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