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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

Aristophanes

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
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
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
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine

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