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A slave is but half a man.

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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste

A slave is but half a man.

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