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Aristophanes3 quotes
The old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes · 423 BCThese impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes · 411 BCYou have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes · 424 BCOscar Wilde2 quotes
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Christopher Bullock1 quote
'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes. — Christopher Bullock · 1716Moliere1 quote
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. — Moliere · 1666