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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake

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