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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
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
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
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law

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

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