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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
First
Shriek
Bluster
Listen
Friend
May
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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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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Old age is second childhood.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
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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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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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