Nov 6, 2009

Non formosus erat, sed erat facundus Ulixes,
Et tamen aequoreas torsit amore deas.

Ulysses was not handsome,
but he was good with words,
and he still set the watery goddesses afire with love.

— Ovid’s Ars Amatoria

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Notes and Quotes from my reading
Autodidact: n. A self-taught person.
[From Greek autodidaktos, auto: self + didaktos: taught; see didactic.]