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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

Aristophanes

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change 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
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
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise

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