21 Aug
2020
21 Aug
'20
9:23 p.m.
John Cowan wrote in
<CAD2gp_RQXUwqj9qFHHzbxgsfgKuSrejLXBWW0KJcJCO=Xkz=xw(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 5:22 AM Harald Arnesen <skogtun(a)gmail.com> wrote:
|>> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
|>
|> Of course, what Hippokrates really wrote was
|> "Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή"
|
|Naturally. But for hysterical raisins I stick to ASCII in my .sigs, and
|anyway, the Latin version allows me to say "Arse longa, vita brevis" when
|appropriate.
|
|What Hippocrates definitely didn't say was "First, do no harm", though
it
|is close to something in the Epidemics which I have refrained from looking
|up.
It was Schopenhauer who definetely said
Neminem laede, imo omnes, quantum potes, juva!
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)