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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.

Aristophanes

A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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 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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.

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