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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.

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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
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.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself

Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.

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