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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

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

Care Salary Vote Yourself
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time

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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