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{{Quote|"Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly with them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it."}} | {{Quote|"Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly with them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it."}} | ||
==Socrates== | ==470 – 399 BC: Socrates== | ||
{{Quote|"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher."}} | {{Quote|"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher."}} | ||
==Aristophanes== | ==Aristophanes== | ||
{{Quote|"[Choir of] Men: O botheration take you all! How you (women) cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell"|Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Jack Lindsay translation, 1926 <ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014</ref>}} | {{Quote|"[Choir of] Men: O botheration take you all! How you (women) cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell"|Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Jack Lindsay translation, 1926 <ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014</ref>}} | ||