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Argument (n.) are a philosopher's slaves: each must wait about until he chooses to finish it, with no jury and no audience sitting in control.
Burial (n.) is all one: to Theodorus it made no difference whether he rotted in the air or underground.
Burial (n.) does not matter to the man whom a tyrant threatens to leave unburied: what a simpleton you are if you think it matters whether I rot above or below ground.
Cleverness (n.) tends to sail without ballast: the quick and retentive get swept along in a rush, and what passes for their courage is a kind of mad excitement.
A King (n.) threatening death is no great matter: 'A fine thing,' Theodorus told Lysimachus, 'to have acquired the power of a Spanish fly!'
Learning (n.) at its best goes smoothly and surely, with good temper, like the quiet flow of a stream of oil.
The Socratic method (n.) is Antaeus's wrestling-ground: no comer is let go until he has been stripped and made to wrestle in argument.