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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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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 truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

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