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There’s no art where there’s no fee.

Aristophanes

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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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
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
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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

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