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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

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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
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
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

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