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Updated: May 26, 2025
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind. Countless times, in indignation at their incapacity, their total lack of discernment, their bestiality, I have been forced to echo the old complaint that folly is the mother and the nurse of the human race: Humani generis mater nutrixque profecto Stultitia est.
With all his powers of discernment, he had no possible notion that the two who followed him were not eager to accept this arrangement. They looked well together, too, he had observed as he neared them exceedingly well. He was sure he was doing them a favour in keeping them together as long as possible.
Occasional rescripts issued from the throne to decide the questions which, by their novelty or importance, appeared to surpass the authority and discernment of a proconsul. Transportation and beheading were reserved for honorable persons; meaner criminals were either hanged, or burnt, or buried in the mines, or exposed to the wild beasts of the amphitheatre.
And no thanks for it, either; indeed, Betty's manner was distinctly top-loftical whenever we chanced to meet, she being a young person of discernment, and perfectly well aware that we were keeping her in the dark about something. But it helped George to forget, and so I counted it in with the rest of the day's work and held my peace.
He had imbibed in Padua mistaken ideas which, unhappily, are held in high esteem by many from whom we should expect more discernment. So it chanced that when he returned home he ventured to contract a formal betrothal with an honourable maiden of noble lineage, against the explicit desire of her distinguished parents.
In a word, from the marks made by his shoes on flints of another kind, I concluded that he was shod with silver eleven deniers fine." All the judges admired Zadig for his acute and profound discernment. The news of this speech was carried even to the king and queen.
There must always be a consideration of the circumstances of an action, and this involves intellectual discernment. The author now qualifies his doctrine by the remark, that to some superior beings the intellectual discernment may explain the whole of the appearances, but inferior natures, such as the human, are aided by instinctive determinations.
One indeed I could except One, before passion threw its mists over my discernment, I knew the first of women! Her name is indelibly written in my heart's core but I dare not look in on it a degree of agony would be the consequence. Oh! thou perfidious, cruel, mischief-making demon, who presidest over that frantic passion thou mayest, thou dost poison my peace, but thou shalt not taint my honour.
"Mademoiselle," he observed evenly, "I have gone further through the world than most men, though to less purpose, and I have met many people, but none of them with an intuition like yours." He paused long enough to refill his glass. "You are right, Mademoiselle. Indeed, it is quite wonderful to meet a woman of your discernment. Yes, you are right.
"Nature then," continued Ernest, "very soon begins to assert her rights; the bud gradually twists itself round and ascends, whilst the root obeys a similar impulse and descends is not this a proof of discernment?"
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