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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.

Aristophanes

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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
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
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
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
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
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

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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