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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
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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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
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

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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