A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two.
Cadit statim simultas, ab altera parte deserta; nisi pariter, non pugnant.
Original text (Latin)
Original text (Latin)
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Fortune is less severe against those of lesser degree, and God strikes what is weak with less power.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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