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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War

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