“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn,
To others, nought remember nor discern.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 38–39 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“6164. To the Wise
A Word may suffice.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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