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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth

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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