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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

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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
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet 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
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
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
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

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