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A slave is but half a man.

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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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
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
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size

A slave is but half a man.

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