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Open your mind before your mouth.

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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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
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
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

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