To go according to nature
… to go according to nature is only to go according to our intelligence, as far as it can follow and as far as we can see; what is beyond is monstrous and...
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Everything has been said
Nothing so absurd can be said that it has not been said by some philosopher.1 Cicero, De divinat., II, lviii, 119. ↩
Health against glory
Is there anyone not willing to barter health, leisure and life itself against reputation and glory, the most useless, vain and counterfeit coinage in circ...
On quoting others
I only quote others the better express myself.
On doubt
Only fools are certain and immoveable: It pleases me as much to doubt as to know.1 [Dante, Inferno, XI, 93] ↩