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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty 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
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

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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