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• No evil can happen to a good man. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)
• Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. -- Trotsky
• Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself
  he has no desire for that of which he feels no want. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...
• One impluse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
  -- William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned...
• He was a wise man who invented God. -- Plato