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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
— Heraclitus
0“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.”
— Heraclitus
0The sheer academic fascination in observing a statue up close as it stares directly into your soul
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This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.
- Plato
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Achilles versus Penthesilea, painted by Exekias, circa 540-30 B.C. Currently in the British Museum.
48the bones are brought,
cypress wood carried on wagons.
the women who are related to the
dead are there to make laments
at their tombs.
one,
empty,
decorated.
this is for the missing,
whose bodies could not be
recovered.
In the same winter, the Athenians gave a public funeral.
one. empty. decorated.
when the bones have been laid in the
earth,
a man makes an appropriate speech:
honor, courage, manliness, fathers.
and after the speech all depart.
perhaps i should say a word or
two on the duties of women:
your great glory is to be inferior.
to be talked about by men.
and when you have mourned, you must depart.
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A scene from the gynaikeion (women’s quarters): women with a mirror. Fragment of an Attic white-ground vase, tentatively attributed to the Dokimasia Painter; 470s BCE. Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
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uwu you want to stwike me down fow my hubwis??? owo??? You say I hawe gone too faw with my staggewing dispways of awwogance and compwete diswegawd of mowals? Be qwiet pwease (✿^‿^).
19When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it - Socrates
0Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers
- Socrates
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