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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
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
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
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
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity

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