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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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty

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