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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men 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
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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

The old are in a second childhood.

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