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

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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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
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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine

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