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Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
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
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
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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

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