and part of it was due to the fact that she was sharp and of strong character, and that Socrates used her as a test of his virtue, specifically of his ability to deal with human beings even when they were difficult.
Not long ago, at Borders, I saw a newly published Twentieth Anniversary Edition ofIntercourse. Aside from the utterly boring, inane cover design, what struck me was that Ariel Levy wrote a foreword to it. I was perplexed that there was writing by someone else in the volume; Andrea's words...
– Aristotle Onassis “If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.”– Edith Piaf “A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.”– Richard Whately “Anybody who thinks money will...
Long life or short life is made all one by death. For long or short is not in thing that are no more. Aristotle saith, there are certaine little beasts alongst the river Hyspanis, that live but one day: she which dies at 8 o’clocke in the morning, dies in her youth, and she...
But why stop there, when you can go alllll the way back to the Classical Smartasses, Plato and Aristotle. Who both thought that “intellect your way to victory!!!” was The Way and that learning by example and experience was for losers. Recalling at this point that the accumulated lesson...
there is a long history of such thought.Aristotle had the same concern, and in ancient Rome, sometechnologies were outlawedbecause of the expected job loss. In the most recent century, if you’ve ever watched a movie, you’ve likely come across at least one fever dream of technology run ...
As long as Telefónica hammers foreign routers with their stupid NAT-keepalives, I don't care. Not my router, after all, lol.I was actually considering switching to another carrier, but there are only two other carriers in Germany - TMobile_Germany and Vodafone_de, checked their carrier ...
I was…what is it, from Aristotle? I was just the medium." "I never said thank you," I said. "But it was not me, it was you," he said. "You did it." At that moment, another woman came over to shake Pépin's hand, giving me a chance to collect myself. As simple and ...
” I think it reached its apotheosis with the vaccine. In the beginning, there was this conversation about, “Wow, here’s a terrible virus. It’s killing people. We don’t really know how to treat it. We don’t know the long-term effects. So, the only really responsible thing to ...
After all, everyone knows that going out of the city may mean death. If you are too calm, it will arouse the murderer s suspicion. Only at this time did he know why none of the assassinated clansmen came back alive. The strength of the assassins was so terrifying that even their think...