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

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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice

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