More specifically concerning: risk
give pearls away and rubies
23 May 2004, around 8.25.
From my new copy of A. S. F. Gow’s A. E. Housman, a Sketch. ((In addition to their inability to clear up typographical errors in monographs, OUP seems to be divesting itself of some of its library; which is bad for them, but good for me.)) It was Housman’s custom to spend three weeks or […]
Montaigne 1.6
20 February 2015, around 9.40.
The dangers of conferring with the ‘enemy’ – both if one goes on one’s own or with one’s cohorts: dangers on all sides. ((A fault of humanism, to remove the might of divine disapproval: so inconvenient.)) Circumstances create their own consequence, and lead naturally to a certain course of action; the refrain from that action […]