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

Aristophanes

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men

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