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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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Care Salary Vote Yourself
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes

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