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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest 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

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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