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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Aristophanes

Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

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