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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.

Aristophanes

You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
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
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking

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