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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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth

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