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The old are in a second childhood.

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
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

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