“If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.”
Pyrrho, 11.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics
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