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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
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

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