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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Aristophanes

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
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
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
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty 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
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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