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

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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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
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
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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

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

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