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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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine

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