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Monday, September 13, 2004

Learning

Isocrates, To Demonicus 18:
If you are a lover of learning [philomathes], you will be very learned [polymathes].
The quotation in Greek is inscribed over the portal to Shrewsbury School.

From my own experience, I know that the protasis of Isocrates' sentence can be true and the apodosis false.