Socrates, upon concluding determining wisdom in men (humans). (via setbabiesonfire)
"So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is - got he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor think that I know. In this latter, then, I seem to have slightly the advantage of him."
Postmortem skin drying of the hand making the fingernails appear that they have grown. Nails and hairs do not continue growing postmortem. After death, the skin loses so much volume and water that the dehydration cause hair and nails to appear as if they are protruding further out.
