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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty 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
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
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

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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