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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
Aristophanes
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Aristophanes
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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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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[Y]ou 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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