Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
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All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
- Woody Allen
The term is over, and I've handed in my grades, about which the less said the better.
"First think of the tiny fart that your intestines make. Then consider the heavens: their infinite farting is thunder. For thunder and farting are, in principle, one and the same."
Iâm still here, just still too busy to blog this week. Tuesday was the opening class for my Socratic seminar, Wednesday was the first session of my lecture course (and a faculty meeting). Today, I have a Socratic discussion of Hesiod. So Iâm guessing it will be Friday before I post again.
Many a blogger has taken Socrates' words to heart.