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- From: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: a pesky quote
- Message-ID: <Dec.25.14.15.28.1992.9985@math.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 19:15:28 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.224130.3512@mprgate.mpr.ca> <1992Dec23.231134.24504@tfs.com>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- >>Who said: "An unexamined life is not worth living." ???
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- >Attributed by Plato to Socrates.
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- In Plato's _Apology,_ the story of the death of Socrates. BTW, it's
- "Ho de anexetastos bios ou biotos anthropoi" which is more like "The
- unexamined life is not worth living to a human." Note the definite
- article.
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- Bertram Walsh Mathematics Dep't Rutgers University New Brunswick NJ 08903
- Combien pale et exsangue est le _shit_ anglo-saxon en face de notre
- _merde_ omnipresant et triomphant! -- Pierre Guiraud in _Les Gros Mots_
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