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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.

Aristophanes

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger

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