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It is
also proper that you should be informed how craftily he laid his plans to injure
you. Having observed that everybody, whether in public life or outside it,
constantly attributes all the prosperity of Athens to her laws, he began to consider how he could destroy
those laws without detection, and how, even if caught in the act, he might be
thought to have done nothing formidable or presumptuous.
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