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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

Aristophanes

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
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
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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