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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

Aristophanes

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  Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.

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  I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

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  A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

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  Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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  Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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  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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  What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

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  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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  One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

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