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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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
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
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise

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