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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.

Aristophanes

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge 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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste

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