Chiasmus..es
The OED defines "chiasmus" as, "A grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two of parallel clauses is inverted in the other."
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Some fine examples:
“Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.”- Jefferson Davis
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”- George Orwell
“Life creates order, but order does not create life.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.”- Edmund Burke
“By the way, I heard an answer today to the platitude: ‘There's no money in poetry.’
It was: ‘There's no poetry in money, either.’”- Robert Graves
“In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.”- Lenny Bruce
“People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.”- Garrison Keillor
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”- Ray Bradbury
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