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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

Aristophanes

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
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 truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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

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