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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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 make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long

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