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

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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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
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
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
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
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings

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

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