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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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

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