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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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Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
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
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
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
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
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
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
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men

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