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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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You will never make the crab walk straight.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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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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Do not take a blind guide.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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