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“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”
― Democritus

“Be as you wish to seem.”
― Socrates

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
― Socrates

“You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function.

How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.”
― W. H. Auden