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A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
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
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices

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