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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit

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