…τετέλεσται. requiescat in pace (ἂς ἀναπαύεται ἐν εἰρήνῃ)

Solidarity with Virginia Woolf and her summer writing goals

Being properly educated means not believing newspapers after you have read them.

“Cavafy is for me not only the great poet of the Levant, but of all culture in decline — which makes him universal in this century.” – John Fowles

Sēlija, 1916.g. vācu kareivja acīm

Pay the world whatever it takes to leave you alone to think.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert

Nietzsche explains why Lord Byron, one of the greatest poets of all time, wanted his son to be a boring lawyer

Damn, Jung.

Grave stele 1st century BC ending ‘Hail to you too’ χαῖρε καὶ σύ. (Chaire kai su) Compare Caesar to Brutus ‘kai su teknon’ now thought to mean ‘your turn will come son’ (rather than ‘et tu Brute’ as commonly understood)

You are a son of Infinite Life, which knows no end, and you are a child of Eternity.

“So there’s no vowel elision before words like εἴκοσι or ἄναξ?” “That’s right Joe. There’s a digamma there, beautiful letter, like a W, it stops that horrible elision, nasty business. Those awful Athenians, they can’t pronounce it, but Homer could, it affects the meter.”

Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis: Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis. (Distiche Catonis, 10)

I'm sorry to inform you that you've read enough to start writing

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Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš, "Vēja ziedi". Lieliskā latviešu literatūra.

This is a graph of the social acceptability of academic cheating (excitement for AI) vs. liberal democratic institutions (nervousness about AI)

but in general i think people should stop having hobbies and cancel their gym membership and use more caffeine and cold water and sleep less and maybe don't shower every day and instead should grind harder making things of value such as companies and children

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