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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.

Aristophanes

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
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
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion

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