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"We bring from the mountain A tendril fresh-cut to the palace, A wonderful prey."
Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Crassus, #33 [Euripides, Bacchae, lines 1170-1171.]

Katy Perry — Dressin' Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-6zMG2xGk

"A benefit is not conferred upon a person who is unwilling to accept it." [Invito beneficium non datur.]
Justinian, Digest, Book 50, Title 17 Ancient Laws, 69 Benefit [Paulus; no benefit without consent.] 

Brown Eyed Girls — KILL BILL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx8mmWZxWuQ

Sloane Kelly: See? No reason we can't be civilized.

"New benefits cannot obliterate old injuries."
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 5 The way to govern occupied cities, 1513.