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What is the origin of "Wonder begets wisdom?"
Socrates famously said, "Wonder begets wisdom."
Where is this passage from and what is the full text translation?
There seems to be some great missing context...
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Where did the Romans think Latin comes from?
Did the Romans have a theory for the origin of their language?
I assume there were several ideas, and it would be great to see a summary of them.
No need to go very deep on any individual theory; a ...
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Source of quote attributed to Suidas
"Sophocles is wise, Euripides is wiser than Sophocles; but Socrates is the wisest of all men."
I've come across this quote in various places on the internet, including many scholarly books, and it is ...
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Origin of the following phrase: Ambulatoria enim est voluntas hominum usque ad vitae supremum exitum
I can't find where this text comes from:
Ambulatoria enim est voluntas hominum usque ad vitae supremum exitum.
I can't find the author on the internet. What is the source of this phrase?
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"Memento quod es homo"
In the essay "Of Empire", Francis Bacon wrote:
All precepts concerning kings are in effect comprehended in those two remembrances: Memento quod es homo and Memento quod es Deus or vice Dei—the one ...
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