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

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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
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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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion

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