Ancient Wisdom Seeker Gifts

"Look, life is nasty, brutish, and short, but you knew that when you became a caveman."

'Everyone's using your theorem, Pythagoras. I told you you should have patented it.'

"And right about then the price of great big stones went out of sight."

'He was a Stoic's Stoic.'

"What would Aristotle do?"

"Archimedes! He could have kept us afloat."

Homer

Democritus

Now there's way over a billion of us. What does confucius say about that?

John Wycliffe

"Socrates said that love was the only word that frees us from the weight and pain in life, because ice cream hadn't been invented yet."

"Do you want to add something about not trying to time the market?"

Galileo vs Aristotle

'Of course, this social contract will have to remain hypothical until someone invents writing.'

Arkhimed/Archimedes

'It's called 'stress' - It'll help with natural selection.'

Plato's Philosophy Bookstore: 'NOT closed.'

PHARMACY, 'Tell Hippocrates to write his prescriptions in Greek -- I can't read Babylonian!'

Confucius

Using ancient and powerful selling techniques, Tom actually talks the lid off a pickle jar

"Is this going to be on the midterm?"

'How could Plato write The Republic with a quill pen on parchment when I can't write a memo with a deluxe computer?'

'These sure rule out a lot of options....'

'Just think of me as your life coach.'

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

Early Greek Humor. I love Aristotle, but oh, Eu-clid!

Greek Mathematics. Archimedes. Euclid. Pythagoras. The ancient Greeks didn't have a symbol for zero? The left "nothing" to the imagination.

"Hunters turned philosophers"

"Before we start our discussion, has everyone read this week's book."

"Feel free to take notes."

5pm Happy Hour. 6pm discussion: what is true happiness?

'He who laughs last probably doesn't get it.'

'Do you think that's wise?'

Road sign: 'No Passing Zone... This, too, shall pass.'

'Enlightenment isn't EITHER overrated!'