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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 invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
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

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