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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
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
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking

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