How to Party Like a Scholar

1558

“It is not appropriate to be always depressed or distracted in the company of others. This may be acceptable to those who have long pursued studies that are called, so I have been told, liberal or intellectual. It should not under any circumstance be permitted among ordinary people.”

Giovanni della Casa, Il Galateo overo de’ costumi

They’re called liberal arts because they liberate you from the duty to socialize without weeping.