Satius est supervacua scire quam nihil.
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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Letter LXXXVIII: On liberal and vocational studies, line 45.Seneca the Younger
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Usque adeone
scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?Persius
Nihil aliud esse ebrietatem quam voluntariam insaniam.
Seneca the Younger
Sanus est, qui scit quid sit insania, quippe insania scire se non potest, non magis quam caecitas se videre.
Apuleius
Aut Caesar, aut nihil. (et nihil fuit)
Cesare Borgia
A dictum [Beckett] quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
J. M. Coetzee
Seneca the Younger
Senge, Peter
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