all-wiseness

Updated: July 7, 2026

When any person boasts that he is "Nullias addictus jurare in verba magistri," the reason of that boast may easily be perceived; it is because he thinks, like Jupiter, that it would be disparaging his own all-wiseness to swear by anything but himself. But wisdom will as little enter into a proud or a conceited mind as into a malicious one.

Robert Southey - Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society