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Subject:    Re: [TUHS] Style command source available?
From:       Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen () sdaoden ! eu>
Date:       2020-08-21 15:23:11
Message-ID: 20200821152311.kvK7n%steffen () sdaoden ! eu
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John Cowan wrote in
 <CAD2gp_RQXUwqj9qFHHzbxgsfgKuSrejLXBWW0KJcJCO=Xkz=xw@mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 5:22 AM Harald Arnesen <skogtun@gmail.com> wrote:
 |>>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
 |>
 |> Of course, what Hippokrates really wrote was
 |> "Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή"
 |
 |Naturally.  But for hysterical raisins I stick to ASCII in my .sigs, and
 |anyway, the Latin version allows me to say "Arse longa, vita brevis" when
 |appropriate.
 |
 |What Hippocrates definitely didn't say was "First, do no harm", though it
 |is close to something in the Epidemics which I have refrained from looking
 |up.

It was Schopenhauer who definetely said

  Neminem laede, imo omnes, quantum potes, juva!

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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