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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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

It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

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