Evil men sometimes perform good deeds. One might say that they want to see if it's true that it's as pleasurable as honest folk claim it is.
Les méchants font quelquefois de bonnes actions. On dirait qu'ils veulent voir s'il est vrai que cela fasse autant de plaisir que le prétendent les honnêtes gens.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, December 19, 2004
Doing Good
Chamfort (1741-1794):