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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.

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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
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
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking

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