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

Aristophanes

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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself

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