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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
ARISTOPHANES

Idiot Law
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

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