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Old age is second childhood.

Aristophanes

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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
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
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
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth

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