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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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