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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.

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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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 is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring

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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