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But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

Quienes no han leído el texto [La historia me absolverá de Fidel Castro], suelen conformarse con la cita de su frase final, , afirmación, por cierto, que también hiciera Adolfo Hitler en circunstancias parecidas durante la formación del partido nazi.

It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.

Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."

For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

A Spartan, seeing a man taking up a collection for the gods, said that he did not think much of gods who were poorer than himself.

in which he reigned; a certain writer called Clodius, in a book

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Don't worry the trolls don't come to you. It's your own darkness that leads you to the trolls.

isn't that dangerous?" I objected. "What if somebody used it on people - what if they put it on replace and turned us all into fictional characters?" "How do you know they haven't?" asked Marc.

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

his smile became infuriatingly arch and he-man.

His dark brows lifted and, what with the scars and the piratical beard, he looked like the very devil himself.

To sit in judgment on what people do is a fool's game.

Elves know friendship, if not love, and I would fain see that done which would have gladdened him.

Il mondo è solo carne che si va putrefacendo su un teschio- mormorò la troll

Poor old G.K.C.! It's too bad he didn't live to see the change. What paradoxes he would have dreamed up!

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat

It was the preachers who wished to poach upon other religious fields that angered him.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

GERRY I would step on your face! HACKENSACKER That's quite all right, I rather enjoyed it. GERRY Twice! HACKENSACKER You made quite an impression.