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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself

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