Original text (Latin)
Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?
O but it is a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one, and to hear people say, "That's the man!"
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
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