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

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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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 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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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

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