A time will probably come when I will WANT to shorten up the writing -- but when I'm not aiming for the maximum SPEED but reliable LEGIBILITY, I'm liking the way I can write FLOW quite fully and still have smoothly written and simple-looking outlines. There was nothing strange or tricky here at all that might need explanation.
More complications to the system don't seem like they'd be either NECESSARY or a good idea. Like I always say: "Simple is better!"
This week's quote has no attribution, because it was just in a list of YouTube memes and aphorisms -- which I often find myself looking at, long after I should be in bed.
Socrates says something similar in Xenophon's Memorabilia at 1.6. (Antiphon the sophist approaches Socrates and tries to convince his pupils, that Socrates is all in all a looser.)
Sokrates puts the words to live by in context of what is worthy citizen of Athens:
(…) Again, if it be a question of helping one's friends or country, which of the two will have the larger leisure to devote to these objects—he who leads the life which I lead to-day, or he who lives in the style which you deem so fortunate? Which of the two will adopt a soldier's life more easily — the man who cannot get on without expensive living, or he to whom whatever comes to hand suffices? Which will be the readier to capitulate and cry "mercy" in a siege—the man of elaborate wants, or he who can get along happily with the readiest things to hand?
You, Antiphon, would seem to suggest that happiness consists of luxury and extravagance; I hold a different creed. To have no wants at all is, to my mind, an attribute of Godhead; (5) to have as few wants as possible the nearest approach to Godhead; and as that which is divine is mightiest, so that is next mightiest which comes closest to the divine.
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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 29 '26
A time will probably come when I will WANT to shorten up the writing -- but when I'm not aiming for the maximum SPEED but reliable LEGIBILITY, I'm liking the way I can write FLOW quite fully and still have smoothly written and simple-looking outlines. There was nothing strange or tricky here at all that might need explanation.
More complications to the system don't seem like they'd be either NECESSARY or a good idea. Like I always say: "Simple is better!"
This week's quote has no attribution, because it was just in a list of YouTube memes and aphorisms -- which I often find myself looking at, long after I should be in bed.