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To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind. | Τὸ τὰ ἀδύνατα διώκειν μανικόν· ἀδύνατον δὲ τὸ τοὺς φαύλους μὴ τοιαῦτά τινα ποιεῖν. | V, 17