Anyone who is able and willing to upset the argument gains the day

 Anyone who is able and willing to upset the argument gains the day, and makes the person who is expounding his view by speech or writing or answers appear to most of his hearers to be wholly ignorant of the subjects about which he is attempting to write or speak.  Plato.  Letter 7.  Section 343d.

Bust of Pseudo Seneca by Peter Paul Rubens (1600-1626) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pseudo Seneca by Joseph Wilton (1755-1765) that I photographed at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.


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