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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
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
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

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