phil
@phil
i’m pretty jealous of ancient philosophers they really benefited from all the low hanging platitudes like damn i’m in competition against the whole internet for one iota of originality and they got famous for bangers like: “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” or “patience is a virtue”
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LWatts
@lwatts
And they probably ripped it all off from earlier philosophers who were too early to be preserved in written form. It’s not who invents the thing that counts; it’s who gets credit.
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