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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine

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