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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’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
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
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself

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