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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
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
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
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

High thoughts must have high language.

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