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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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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
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
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
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 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
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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

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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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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