I thought it was a good quote, although I’m not sure LWers need to know it. (On the other hand, one might think the same thing of curing aging or helping cryonics, but Eliezer’s essay on his dead brother still got a substantial reaction.)
Do you like this one better?
“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”
--Cato the Elder; Epistles (94) as quoted by Seneca
I thought it was a good quote, although I’m not sure LWers need to know it. (On the other hand, one might think the same thing of curing aging or helping cryonics, but Eliezer’s essay on his dead brother still got a substantial reaction.)
Do you like this one better?
--Cato the Elder; Epistles (94) as quoted by Seneca