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

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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
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
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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

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