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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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
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
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel

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