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All the counsels, all the arguments in the world may prove unavailing; you will give him explanations, you will convince his mind, and yet his will will play the haughty madam and remain motionless as a rock. Vergil, Aen., lib. 6, v. 470: Non magis incepto vultum sermone movetur, Quam si dura silex, aut stet Marpesia cautes.
The expression is so astonishing at that time in the world's history that it seems worth the while to give it in its original form, so that it may be seen clearly that it is not any subsequent far-fetched interpretation of his opinion, but the actual words themselves, that convey this idea. He said: "Consideravi quod terra ista non potest esse fixa, sed movetur ut aliæ stellæ."
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