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

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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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk 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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise

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

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