Gorgias, Encomium of Helen 1

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“It is equally misguided and foolish to fault praise-worthy affairs and to praise faulty things.”

 

ἴσε γὰρ ἁμαρτία καὶ ἀμαθία μέμφεσθαί τε τὰ ἐπαινετὰ καὶ ἐπαινεῖν τὰ μωμητά

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Original translations of famous words from Ancient Greece and Rome

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