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For My Part, I Think That A Knowledge Of The Future Would Be A Disadvantage.
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For my part, I think that a knowledge of the future would be
a disadvantage.
-- Cicero, "De Divinatione"
Related:
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
-- Cicero (106-43 BC) -- De Divinatione, i, 118...
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. -- Cicero, De Oratore
As ill-luck would have it. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book i, Chap.
ii...
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iv, Chap. v...
Your knowledge would be useless without my ignorance!
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated?
What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool....
I think it a very happy accident. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.
lviii...
Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap. viii...
The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
ix...