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  1. A quotation from John Adams

    As I have always been convinced that abuse of Words, has been the great instrument of Sophistry and Chicanery — of party, faction and Division in Society.

    John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
    Letter (1819-03-31) to J. H. Tiffany

    More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/36295/


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  2. A quotation from Euripides

    HECUBA:      The clear actions of a man,
       Agamemnon, should speak louder than any words.
       good words should get their goodness from our lives
       and nowhere else; the evil we do should show,
       a rottenness that festers in our speech
       and what we say, in capable of being glozed
       with a film of pretty words.
                        There are men, I know,
       sophists who make a science of persuasion,
       glozing evil with the slick of loveliness;
       but in the end a speciousness will show.
       The imposters are punished; not one escapes
       his death.
     
    [ἙΚΆΒΗ: Ἀγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε
       τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν γλῶσσαν ἰσχύειν πλέον:
       ἀλλ᾽, εἴτε χρήστ᾽ ἔδρασε, χρήστ᾽ ἔδει λέγειν,
       εἴτ᾽ αὖ πονηρά, τοὺς λόγους εἶναι σαθρούς,
       καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι τἄδικ᾽ εὖ λέγειν ποτέ.
       σοφοὶ μὲν οὖν εἰσ᾽ οἱ τάδ᾽ ἠκριβωκότες,
       ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δύνανται διὰ τέλους εἶναι σοφοί,
       κακῶς δ᾽ ἀπώλοντ᾽: οὔτις ἐξήλυξέ πω.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1186ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/77262/

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