Common sense isn't.
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| Quote of the moment |
| Chapter 2 : do not steal 01 Beware of robbing a poor wretch, 02 of attacking a cripple. 03 Do not stretch out your hand to touch an old man, 04 nor {snatch (at) the word of} a great one. 05 Do not let yourself be sent on a wicked errand, 06 nor be friends with him who does it. 07 Do not raise an outcry against one who attacks You, 08 nor return him an answer yourself. 09 He who does evil, the shore rejects him, 10 its floodwater carries him away, 11 the north wind comes down to end his hour, 12 it mingles with the thunderstorm, (and) 13 the storm cloud is tall, the crocodiles are vicious. 14 You heated man, how are You now? 15 He cries out, his voice reaches heaven. 16 It is the Moon who declares his crime. 17 Steer, (so that) we may ferry the wicked (over), 18 (as) we do not act like his kind! 19 Lift him up, give him your hand, 20 commit him (in) the hands of the god. 21 Fill his belly with bread of your own, 22 that he be sated and see. 23 Another thing good in the heart of the god: 24 to pause before speaking. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
3rd try here:
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| I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow." |
| ~ Plutarch, Of Superstition. ~ |
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| you might be a physics major... ...if you'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier. |
| ~ physics humor ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. vi. 3. ~ |
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| We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828. ~ |
9th try here:
| Quote of the moment |
| We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature. |
| ~ Plutarch, Of Eating of Flesh. Tract 1. ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| In whatever land you choose to dwell you will always be honored if you have perfect faith and ethics along with wealth and reputation. |
| ~Miscellaneous ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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