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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
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
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
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
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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
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

It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

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