Let no one enter who does not know geometry.
(inscription over the gate of his academy)
Let no one enter who does not know geometry.
(inscription over the gate of his academy)
Elegies He probably held too tightly (In the palm of his hand, Looking out on the sea) To the sand…
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought…
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.