Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.
Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.