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"El guiar al pueblo no es cosa de un hombre culto ni de buenos principios, sino de un ignorante y bellaco" (Los caballeros, 424 aC) - Aristophanes
"El guiar al pueblo no es cosa de un hombre culto ni de buenos principios, sino de un ignorante y bellaco" (Los caballeros, 424 aC)
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Aristophanes (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was a Greek poet and playwright of the Old Comedy, also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. Of his forty plays, eleven are extant, plus a thousand fragments of the others.
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Ἀριστοφάνης
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Father of Comedy
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Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?
Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves
Magistrate: You do?
Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses?
Magistrate: But that is not the same thing.
Lysistrata: How so – not the same thing?
Magistrate: It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the War.
Lysistrata: That's our first principle – no War!
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