Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All rumors about a public figure are to be deemed untrue until he threatens to sue.

Never trust the thought & science of anyone who is not free. Being free means no honors, no position, nothing other than one's own thought.

It seems that the sophistication of French cuisine arose from the need to mask the lack of freshness of the ingredients --much as perfume came from the need to compensate for bad hygiene. In contrast, Italian and East Med cuisines make salient the freshness of the ingredients.