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Exodus
Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a
loftier tower which may be a fortress to me all my days?
For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also
thought just, profit there is none, but the pain and loss on
the other hand are unmistakeable. But if, though unjust, I
acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised
to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes
over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I
must devote myself. I will describe around me a picture and
shadow of virtue to be the vestibule and exterior of my
house behind I will trail the subtle and craft fox, as
Archilochus, greatest of sages, recommends. But I hear some
one exclaiming that the concealment of wickedness is often
difficult to which I answer, Nothing great is easy.
-- Plato, The Republic,
Book II
Exodus, an Ascii Collection by Necromancer of ACiD and Remorse
1981, coming soon.