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

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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
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
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
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
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth

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