Selected Aphorisms #3

The third installment in our captivating new series.

“This economy is scary,” one gentleman says. “Very scary,” his friend replies. They go on to talk for some time – about their jobs, skiing, whatever. Yet for all that, they don’t even mention – not once! – Plotinus’s treatise on beauty. Talk about scary: to have such an opportunity and yet squander it on fret and trifles.