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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word

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