Sunday, July 22, 2018
The Monkey Man
Heraclitus, fragment 83 (from Plato, Greater Hippias 289 b; tr. W.H.S. Jones):
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The wisest human being will seem to be a monkey compared to a god in wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
ἀνθρώπων ὁ σοφώτατος πρὸς θεὸν πίθηκος φανεῖται καὶ σοφίᾳ καὶ κάλλει καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις πᾶσιν.
