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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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Poured
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Open your mind before your mouth
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Old age is second childhood.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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