“Why was my own dress good enough to live in, and not good enough to die in?”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Diogenes Laertius
“Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes,
Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.”
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones
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