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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Aristophanes

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
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
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
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
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity

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