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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
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
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
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
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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