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Poison: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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.— LESSING — Paraphrase of a Greek

Epigram by Demodocus.

Es ist Arznei, nicht Gift, was ich dir reiche. It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.— LESSING — Nathan der Weise. I. 2.

In gährend Drachengift hast du Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt. To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.— SCHILLER — Wilhelm Tell. IV. 3. 3.