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“Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Coriolanus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b5bcab84b21571da593afc2df04df5a1171f1f1f63bcadd67f83188e59f9c5a5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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