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Open your mind before your mouth.

Aristophanes

You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise 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

Open your mind before your mouth.

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