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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise

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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