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#1
07-09-2008, 12:42 PM
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Who can source this saying?
I've forgotten who said it. The saying is approximately:
Two old wise men were having a good time together debating A student approaches them and one of them says "Here comes a fool, now we must be serious" I really love it, and I read so much I have no idea where I found it. It could be in any time period in philosophy. I'm thinking that it could be in Plato or Xenophon (in which case I suspect it would be a quote from a poet), but I'm not sure.
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07-09-2008, 12:50 PM
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil. - Richard III If you want to catch a fish, don't follow a chicken.
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07-09-2008, 12:52 PM
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Dopp, I believe that Dr. Clarke was alluding to my unknown source, comparing Beau with a character in a Greek story...
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07-09-2008, 12:56 PM
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Well you may have found it, dopp, but I could have sworn that I read it in my research.
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07-09-2008, 12:56 PM
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James Boswell also says it was Clarke. I found numerous references to Clarke for this line, but nobody attributing it to an ancient Greek.
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil. - Richard III If you want to catch a fish, don't follow a chicken.
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#6
07-09-2008, 12:59 PM
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Quote:
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#7
07-09-2008, 01:09 PM
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Ok I'm here now!
 Why is everyone so serious?
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