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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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth

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