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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.

Aristophanes

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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 truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

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