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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.

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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
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
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

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