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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

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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
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings

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