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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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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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself

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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