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An eerily familiar sentiment from The Anatomy of Melancholy

"To this end I write, like them, saith Lucian, that recite to trees, and declaim to pillars for want of auditors: as Paulus Aegineta ingenuously confesseth, not that anything was unknown or omitted, but to exercise myself, which course if some took, I think it would be good for their bodies, and much better for their souls; or peradventure as others do, for fame, to show myself (Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter). I might be of Thucydides' opinion, to know a thing and not to express it, is all one as if he knew it not."

Posted: Tue - January 3, 2006 at 08:47 PM | | | |

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