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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

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
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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