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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

Aristophanes

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
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
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
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
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
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself

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