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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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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
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
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
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
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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

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