I hear the philosophers opposing it and saying 'tis a miserable thing for a man to be foolish, to err, mistake, and know nothing truly. Nay rather, this is to be a man. And why they should call it miserable, I see no reason; forasmuch as we are so born, so bred, so instructed, nay such is the common condition of us all.

Creer que la felicidad del hombre consiste en las mismas cosas es ser loco en extremo. Sólo la opinión que de ellas tenemos nos hace feliz.

so sweet a thing it is not to be wise, that on the contrary men rather pray against anything than folly.