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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

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
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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Care Salary Vote Yourself
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking

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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