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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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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
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
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet

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