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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
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
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
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
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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

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