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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.

Aristophanes

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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
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
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

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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