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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering 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
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday

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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