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

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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering 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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
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
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
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
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
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
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 may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
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
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 is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying

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