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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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
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
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change 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

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