From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Style command source available?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:23:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200821152311.kvK7n%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_RQXUwqj9qFHHzbxgsfgKuSrejLXBWW0KJcJCO=Xkz=xw@mail.gmail.com>
John Cowan wrote in
<CAD2gp_RQXUwqj9qFHHzbxgsfgKuSrejLXBWW0KJcJCO=Xkz=xw@mail.gmail.com>:
|On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 5:22 AM Harald Arnesen <skogtun@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)
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-20 14:09 Richard Salz
2020-08-20 14:45 ` Jim Geist
2020-08-20 15:14 ` Clem Cole
2020-08-20 15:44 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-20 16:08 ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 16:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-20 16:48 ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 19:42 ` Chet Ramey
2020-08-20 23:15 ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 23:17 ` Chet Ramey
2020-08-20 23:20 ` Jim Capp
2020-08-21 9:21 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-08-21 14:42 ` John Cowan
2020-08-21 15:17 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-21 15:23 ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
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