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Monday, October 25, 2021

Sayings of Heraclitus 51


Men allow themselves to be deceived as Homer was, who yet was wiser than all the Greeks; for some boys killing lice deceived him saying, "What we see and catch we leave behind; what we neither see nor catch we take with us."

IMAGE: Adriaen Brouwer, The Delousing (c. 1630)



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