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

Aristophanes

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
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
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
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
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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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