Measure of wisdom — Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
Woran die Weisheit zu messen ist. — Der Zuwachs an Weisheit lässt sich genau nach der Abnahme an Galle bemessen.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, April 09, 2010
A Yardstick
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, Volume II, Part II (The Wanderer and His Shadow), no. 348 (tr. R.J. Hollingdale):