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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.

Aristophanes

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
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
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time

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