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How can I study from below, that which is above?

Aristophanes

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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
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
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men

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