Friday, January 21, 2011

Boothby: The Two Wallets

Jove has to man two sacks assign'd;
One hangs before and one behind;
In this our own defects we hide,
That is with other men's supplied.
Hence comes it, to our own though blind,
Another's faults we quickly find.

Source: Boothby - Phaedrus 4.10.



Image Source: Zeus (Wikipedia).

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