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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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