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21.09.21
A highly productive day, ergo my place is a mess. I beg your pardon and offer thee books, post-haste, in lieu of a proper tribute.
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light! —Edna St. Vincent Millay
I adore how Plato tells everything about Socrates in one sentence in Symposium:
He said that he met Socrates fresh from the bath and sandalled; and as the sight of the sandals was unusual, he asked him whither he was going that he had been converted into such a beau.
The wisest man in Athens usually walked around barefoot and unbathed, and he didn’t give a damn about it.
And Socrates was so charismatic that handsome young noble men in Athens were falling in love with him.
