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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.

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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
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
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice

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