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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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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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 often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty

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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