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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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