Time Takes Away The Grief

Human Affairs Are So Obscure And Various That Nothing Can Be Clearly Known. This Was The Sound Conclusion Of The Academic Sceptics, Who Were The Least Surly Of Philosophers.

Retain The Wind By Compressing The Belly.

Almost All Christians Being Wretchedly Enslaved To Blindness And Ignorance, Which The Priests Are So Far From Preventing Or Removing, That They Blacken The Darkness, And Promote The Delusion: Wisely Foreseeing That The People (like Cows, Which Never Give Down Their Milk So Well As When They Are Gently Stroked), Would Part With Less If They Knew More.

As An Example Of Just How Useless These Philosophers Are For Any Practice In Life There Is Socrates Himself, The One And Only Wise Man, According To The Delphic Oracle. Whenever He Tried To Do Anything In Public He Had To Break Off Amid General Laughter. While He Was Philosophizing About Clouds And Ideas, Measuring A Flea's Foot And Marveling At A Midge's Humming, He Learned Nothing About The Affairs Of Ordinary Life.

Nothing Is So Foolish, They Say, As For A Man To Stand For Office And Woo The Crowd To Win Its Vote, Buy Its Support With Presents, Court The Applause Of All Those Fools And Feel Self-satisfied When They Cry Their Approval, And Then In His Hour Of Triumph To Be Carried Round Like An Effigy For The Public To Stare At, And End Up Cast In Bronze To Stand In The Market Place.