“What he himself is, whether he is or is not, he does not know so much as this.”
Ipse qui sit, utrum sit an non sit, id quoque nescit.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
XVII, line 22
Carmina
“He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.”
Il connaît l’univers, et ne se connaît pas.
Book VIII (1678–1679), fable 26.
Fables (1668–1679)
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