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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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
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
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth

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