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

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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning

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