“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”

Freeman (1948), p. 152 [Democr. "Fragment B 64" http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/philosophes/democrite/diels.htm ("Demokrates 29" in Stobaeus, Anthologium III, 4, 81)] <br class="br">Variant: There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

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