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Aristophanes

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 teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty

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