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

Aristophanes

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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
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
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
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide

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