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By words the mind is winged
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Man is a truly cunning creature.
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Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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[Wealth], the most excellent of all the gods.
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We say that poverty is the sister of beggary.
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Man is naturally deceitful ever, in every way!
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Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.
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Blest the man who possesses a
Keen intelligent mind.
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It is so that you may know only those who nourish you
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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'Tis the Whirlwind, that has driven out Zeus and is King now.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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[We] must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us.
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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
446 BC
Died:
386 BC
(aged 60)
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