sauton

Updated: May 6, 2025

Sauton and the Cure had given warning that they expected their 'strangers. In the evening, when I came in and went upstairs to tell my aunt the incidents of our walk, if I was rash enough to say to her that we had passed, near the Pont-Vieux, a man whom my grandfather didn't know: "A man grandfather didn't know at all!" she would exclaim. "That's a likely story."

Marcel Proust - Swann's Way

This is a difficulty which is thwarted at the very outset by gnothi sauton know thyself. This is undoubtedly partly due to the fact that a man can only see himself in the glass by looking straight towards it and remaining quite still; whereby the play of the eye, which is so important, and the real characteristic of the face is, to a great extent, lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays of Schopenhauer