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- We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
- Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
- Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
- God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
- Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
- The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.