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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
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
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
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
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
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word

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