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Monday, October 6, 2008
A Thing of Beauty in a Barbarous Time
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Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. — Ovid With the economy imploding, and the wars, and crimes, and torture, and impotent pol...
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Poem on the Lisbon Earthquake, 1759
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On November 1, 1755, the first massive earthquake to shake modern Europe destroyed the city of Lisbon , then the fourth largest city in the ...
Saturday, March 22, 2008
On Knowledge, Ignorance, and Pride
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From Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile : Human intelligence has its limits, and not only can a man not know everything, but he cannot even k...
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Who said this?
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What should one think about the massive inequality in the world? "... one should think in this regard about the sort of inequality that...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
"Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco"
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The quote in Latin in the title of this post comes from Virgil's Aeneid , Book I, line 630. Roughly translated, it means: "No stran...
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