Cold Pastoral

"Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence"

"Her own tower... was only by accident known as Mexico"

“What means the strange, wild ballad? With conjectures, each vainly tries to track the hidden secret.”

“There is an Abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it.”

“If the soul is mortal, then reason is merely a dream sent by Zeus to deceive us wretched creatures”

"Nothing is more absurd than a philosopher who fears death"

"People often misunderstand that the philosopher is always pursuing death and dying."

"And so I go my way, obedient to the god, and make inquisition into the wisdom of anyone who appears to be wise."

"Whatever herbs are mixt together, yet the whole mass is called by one name: sallet."

"Learning is recollection? Can you teach me how this is?"

"Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who cannot foresee the future."