#begets

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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Solitude begets whimsies. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. ↗

— Hippocrates

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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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