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  1. Sep 2013
    1. The same is true of crimes so great and terrible that no man living could be suspected of them: here too no precautions are taken.

      I find this bit amusing. Extremely amusing. It does not seem conceivable in our modern world for something like this to happen. To have someone commit a crime and not be charged due to the fact that it's so terrible that it couldn't possibly have been performed by the accused.

    1. POLUS: What sort of an art is cookery? SOCRATES: Not an art at all, Polus.

      Our modern day creators of baked confections would have your head for such words!