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Quotations 12/18/2009 at 11:26 AM EST

All men are deceived by the appearance of things...

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Quotation by Heraclitus:

All men are deceived by the appearance of things, even
Homer himself who was the wisest man in Greece; for he
was deceived by boys catching lice: they said to him, "What
We have caught and what we have killed we have left
behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.

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Type: Poetry
Context: Unknown
Context Details: The quotation is in verse form as the Preface to the book, The Lice (Athenium, New York, 1969), a book of poetry by W.S. Merwin.

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I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (more...)

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