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Informer:
My friend, I am asking you for wings, not for words.
Pisthetaerus:
It's just my words that gives you wings.
Informer:
And how can you give a man wings with your words?
Pisthetaerus:
They all start this way. [...]
Informer:
So that words give wings?
Pisthetaerus:
Undoubtedly; words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven. Thus I hope that my wise words will give you wings to fly to some less degrading trade.
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Blest the man who possesses a
Keen intelligent mind.
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By words the mind is winged
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Born:
446 BC
Died:
386 BC
(aged 60)
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