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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! "

Aristophanes , Lysistrata


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Aristophanes quote : Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?<br /><br />Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves<br /><br />Magistrate: You do?<br /><br />Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses?<br /><br />Magistrate: But that is not the same thing.<br /><br />Lysistrata: How so – not the same thing?<br /><br />Magistrate: It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the War.<br /><br />Lysistrata: That's our first principle – no War!