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These, then, are the arguments in favour of Bacon, or the Great Unknown, which are offered with perfect solemnity of assurance: and the Baconians repeat them in their little books of popularisation and propaganda. Quantula sapientia! It is absolutely impossible to prove that Will, or Bacon, or the Man in the Moon, was the author of the Shakespearean plays and poems.
Never in a long life did he seek to master a lesson so obscure. Mr. Sumner was given to saying after Oxenstiern: "Quantula sapientia mundus regitur!" Oxenstiern talked of a world that wanted wisdom; but Adams found himself seeking education in a world that seemed to him both unwise and ignorant.
I could fancy the poor snug little thing shrinking within, like a guilty conscience. Ah, well says Juvenal, "'Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula." "He has a superb head, though," I replied. I like to allow that other people are handsome now and then it looks generous." "Yes," said Vincent, "for a barber's block: but here comes Mrs.
He might have risen to the highest places if discretion had been among his gifts, and his career proves the quantula sapientia of the French Government before the Revolution. In no other time or country could 'the King's Secret' have run a course far more incredible than even the story of the Chevalier d'Éon.
I could fancy the poor snug little thing shrinking within, like a guilty conscience. Ah, well says Juvenal, "'Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula." "He has a superb head, though," I replied. "I like to allow that other people are handsome now and then it looks generous." "Yes," said Vincent, "for a barber's block: but here comes Mrs.
As we put those details side by side we realise quantula regitur mundus sapientia with how little wisdom do men rule the world. Yet the truth was told us long ago that he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city, and we might have learnt by our experience of the peace that the only conquest that really pays is the conquest of oneself.
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