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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

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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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine

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