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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
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
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANES

Army Leadership Skill
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words

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