There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.
Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.
Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.
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