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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

A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste

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