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MEDEA: I think the unjust man who can speak cleverly
   incurs the greatest penalty for, feeling confident
   to cloak injustice in fair speech,
   he dares the utmost villainy.

[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις ἄδικος ὢν σοφὸς λέγειν
   πέφυκε, πλείστην ζημίαν ὀφλισκάνει:
   γλώσσῃ γὰρ αὐχῶν τἄδικ᾽ εὖ περιστελεῖν
   τολμᾷ πανουργεῖν.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 580ff (431 BC) [tr. Ewans (2022)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/81800/

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Euripides - Medea [Μήδεια], l. 580ff (431 BC) [tr. Ewans (2022)] | WIST Quotations

MEDEA: I think the unjust man who can speak cleverly incurs the greatest penalty for, feeling confident to cloak injustice in fair speech, he dares the utmost villainy. [ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἐμοὶ γὰρ ὅστις ἄδικος ὢν σοφὸς λέγειν πέφυκε, πλείστην ζημίαν ὀφλισκάνει: γλώσσῃ γὰρ αὐχῶν τἄδικ᾽ εὖ περιστελεῖν τολμᾷ πανουργεῖν.] (Source (Greek)).…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 21

A quotation from C. C. Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once set a rolling it must increase. It gives momentum to the activity of the knave, but it chills the honest man, and makes him almost weary of his calling: and all that corruption attracts, it also retains, for it is easier not to fall, than only to fall once, and not to yield a single inch than having yielded to regain it.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 6 (1822)

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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Injustice is a kind of blasphemy. Nature designed rational beings for each other’s sake: to help — not harm — one another, as they deserve. To transgress its will, then, is to blaspheme against the oldest of the gods.

[Ὁ ἀδικῶν ἀσεβεῖ: τῆς γὰρ τῶν ὅλων φύσεως κατεσκευακυίας τὰ λογικὰ ζῷα ἕνεκεν ἀλλήλων, ὥστε ὠφελεῖν μὲν ἄλληλα κατ̓ ἀξίαν βλάπτειν δὲ μηδαμῶς, ὁ τὸ βούλημα ταύτης παραβαίνων ἀσεβεῖ δηλονότι εἰς τὴν πρεσβυτάτην τῶν θεῶν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 1 (9.1) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hays (2003)]

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Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 1 (9.1) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hays (2003)] - Marcus Aurelius | WIST Quotations

Injustice is a kind of blasphemy. Nature designed rational beings for each other’s sake: to help -- not harm -- one another, as they deserve. To transgress its will, then, is to blaspheme against the oldest of the gods. [Ὁ ἀδικῶν ἀσεβεῖ: τῆς γὰρ τῶν ὅλων φύσεως κατεσκευακυίας τὰ λογικὰ…

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Matt Apr 20, 2025

Knavery | December 6, 2024 | Northside Tavern | Cincinnati, OH

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Stefanie Neumann Aug 27, 2023

I'm trying to write without a #desk, a pen and paper. A #knavery of the Gods, as internal struggle drives me #crazy, and I need to get it out of the system. #Dimension shifts. Thrown in the air like grain to lose the #husk, I raise my voice and sing.

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GreasyBitch Jul 18, 2023

It's pure #chicanery and #knavery not to expect me to use my #pee #pee tube to close snorkellers' breathing apparati and laugh a febrile, tubercular squeal while they #Perish

Graham Fluster Dec 29, 2022

@Michaelvaliant

#Promptodon #Knavery

Most of the flock cared only for the solstice festival because the humans left food out for the statues, but Clip loved it for the Knavery of snatching the offerings out of the humans' baskets before they could be placed. Eating the food was fun too, but the true thrill was in the brazen theft.

Thomas Weald Dec 28, 2022

For when the pious are sent from the heavens the earth will tremble; a triptych on virgin snow. One for the #knavery against the gods, one for the vanity of kings, and one for long-forgotten dreams. Shudder and fall to your knees both you seditious and sumptuous, slaves to self-indulgence. No army, nor magic, nor pretentious mimicry would save your soul. Cower to the earth, beg for hope for merciful grace; the race of men will meet their close in an all-deafening choir of croaks.
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screaming into the void Dec 28, 2022

@Michaelvaliant #promptodon #WritingPrompt Today's Prompt (12/28): #Knavery Tucker Wilson perched on the gatepost plotting his knavery. The purple fruit he’d eaten for lunch was working its way through his system, and the Sacred Stone Sisters of Silence would never know what hit ‘em.