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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.

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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
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
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
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size

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