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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.

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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
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 cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
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
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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Egg Food Kissing
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
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.

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