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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Plutarch (2016). “Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great”, p.19, Oxford University Press

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

"Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes" by Edward Hutton, (p. 65), 1922.

I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.

Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

Patrick O'Brian (2004). “The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels”, W. W. Norton & Company