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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
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
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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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman

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