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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.

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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
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
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 cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious 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
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

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