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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
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
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

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