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“Hier aupres de Charenton
Un serpent morait Jean Freron,
Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?
Ce fut le serpent qui creva.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: imitation from the Greek, also found in Oeuvres Complets de Voltaire, III, p. 1002, 1817, printed as
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“Un gros serpent mordit Aurele.
Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?
Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!
Ce fut le serpent qui creva.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: in a manuscript commonplace book, probably written at the end of the 18th century, see "Notes and Qu
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“What's one man's poison, signior,
Is another's meat or drink.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Love's Cure (act III, sc. 2)
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“One man's strawberries are another man's hives.”
Donald G. Cooley Quotes Source: Eat and Get Slim (p. 65)
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“A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having
tasted the Poison-flinging blood.
[Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato
perit sanguine Cappadocis.]”
Demodocus Quotes Source: translation of his Greek Epigram
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“The man recover'd of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
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“While Fell was reposing himself in the hay,
A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;
But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light,
And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.”
Ephraim Gotthold Lessing Quotes Source: Paraphrase of Demodocus
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“All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for
if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the
touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them:
but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth,
especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present
death.”
Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) Quotes Source: Natural History (bk. VII, ch. II), (Holland's translation)
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“To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human
kindness.
[Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du
Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Wilhelm Tell (IV, 3, 3)
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“Poison is drunk out of gold.
[Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Thyestes (III, 453)
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“Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
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“Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head
From a flint so unhappily thrown;
I think very different from thousands; indeed
'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.”
Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar) Quotes Source: on a stone thrown at King George III
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