“Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.”
Interdum animus dominarum ex ancillarum habitu iudicatur.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 54
Letters
“Aristippus is credited with having said that those who stop short of philosophy in the preparatory studies are like Penelope's suitors: they marry the maids, but not the mistress.”
Authority and persuasion in philosophy (1985)
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