Cafe Adriatico burned down tonight. Let's all mourn the death of such beautiful pieces of our history: the paintings, the architecture, the memories...

Social classes are more than just economic. Sometimes, with enough sophistication, a poor man can enter social circles that belong to the elite ( Read more... )

The beauty of the academe lies in the hands of the idiots.  As the fabulous Montaigne writes about Socrates, “That Socrates always smilingly welcomed the contradictions opposed to his reasoning was due, it might be said, to his strength, and that, since the advantage was certain to be on his side, he accepted them as matter for a new victory.” 
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