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“They cannot and should not be called deceptions,” said Don Quixote, “since their purpose was virtuous.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“who, finding Don Quixote in his house, sought ways to make his madness public without harming him; for jests that cause pain are not jests, and entertainments are not worthwhile if they injure another. The”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“No wonder everyone sought, by hook or by crook, alliance with the Heike. All alive within the four seas mimicked the ways of Rokuhara,14 down to the mere cut of a robe or crease of a hat.”
― Anonymous, The Tale of the Heike

“Then the child of Zeus, Helen, decided she would mix the wine220 with drugs to take all pain and rage away, to bring forgetfulness of every evil. Whoever drinks this mixture from the bowl will shed no tears that day, not even if her mother or her father die, nor even if soldiers kill her brother or her darling son with bronze spears before her very eyes. Helen had these powerful magic drugs from Polydamna, wife of Thon, from Egypt, where fertile fields produce the most narcotics:230 some good, some dangerous. The people there are skillful doctors. They are the Healer’s people.”
― Homer, The Odyssey