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

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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
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
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try

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