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

Aristophanes

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
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
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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 is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
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

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