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And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain,
But who can get another life again?

— Archilochus

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Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

With guileful thoughts she bore
In one hand water, in the other fire.

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday... after this, men can believe anything, expect anything.

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.

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