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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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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
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

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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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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