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By Identifying The New Learning With Heresy, You Make Orthodoxy Synonymous With Ignorance.

Ask A Wise Man To Dinner And He'll Upset Everyone By His Gloomy Silence Or Tiresome Questions. Invite Him To A Dance And You'll Have A Camel Prancing About. Haul Him Off To A Public Entertainment And His Face Will Be Enough To Spoil The People's Entertainment.

It Is An Unscrupulous Intellect That Does Not Pay To Antiquity Its Due Reverence.

Human Affairs Are So Obscure And Various That Nothing Can Be Clearly Known. This Was The Sound Conclusion Of The Academic Sceptics, Who Were The Least Surly Of Philosophers.

This Type Of Man Who Is Devoted To The Study Of Wisdom Is Always Most Unlucky In Everything, And Particularly When It Comes To Procreating Children; I Imagine This Is Because Nature Wants To Ensure That The Evils Of Wisdom Shall Not Spread Further Throughout Mankind.