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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

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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
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

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