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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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
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
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money

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