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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

Aristophanes

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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

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