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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People 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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
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
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
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

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

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