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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Aristophanes

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
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
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
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
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

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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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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