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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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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
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
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
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 wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True

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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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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