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  • Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

    -Aeschylus
    Supplices, l.202 (translated by H  Weir Smyth).

  • I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

    -John Milton
      Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

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