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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

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
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
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

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