Alexis (-372–-270 BC) Athenian poet of Middle Comedy
Mandragorizomene, Fragment 1, 14.
“About sex especially men are born unbalanced; we might almost say men are born mad. They scarcely reach sanity till they reach sanctity.”
— G. K. Chesterton, book The Everlasting Man
The Everlasting Man (1925)
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Context: Who are you and who am I
To say we know the reason why
Some are born, some men die,
Beneath one infinite sky?
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