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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
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
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
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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
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
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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