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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

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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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself

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