“Take heed of playing often or deep at Dice and Games of Chance, for that is more chargeable than the seven deadly sins; Yet you may allow your self a certain easie Sum to spend at Play, to gratifie Friends, and pass over the Winter Nights, and that will make you indifferent for the Event. If you would read a man’s Disposition, see him Game, you will then learn more of him in one hour, than in seven Years Conversation, and little Wagers will try him as soon as great Stakes, for then he is off his Guard.”
Problem is, you can’t post more than 140 characters on Twitter. The full Plato is too long. ;o)
140 character limit, that is the one thing that sucks about twitter, you gotta abbreviate everything there or else it won’t fit
It's all in the translation. What's with the old English spellings? I assume Plato wrote in Greek.
There’s all kinds of false quotes out there—especially on those quote amalgamation sites. I see stuff attributed to D’Tocqueville with very modern-sounding phrases that you know aren’t from the 1800s. That’s just not how they wrote back then (even in French).
what’s it supposedly from, the Dialogues? I’m trying to track the original down.