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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Aristophanes

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor

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