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

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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
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
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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

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