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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Aristophanes

By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
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 honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide

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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