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How do you know antiquity was foolish? how do you know the present is wise? who made it foolish? who made it wise?
-Francois Rabelais
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How Do You Know Antiquity Was Foolish?

Francois Rabelais
How do you know antiquity was foolish? how do you know the present is wise? who made it foolish? who made it wise?
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Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? when thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! what mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! the mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!
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