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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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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Friendship Wall War
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
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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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

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