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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
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Father of Comedy
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Poured
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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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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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Open your mind before your mouth
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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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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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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