No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

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Open your mind before your mouth

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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember

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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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By words the mind is winged

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