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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables

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