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

Aristophanes

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 slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

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