Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
AD 320
But what can we suppose to have been the reason why it was not found, though sought with the greatest earnestness and labour by so many intellects, and during so many ages, unless it be that philosophers sought for it out of their own limits? And since they traversed and explored all parts, but nowhere found any wisdom, and it must of necessity be somewhere, it is evident that it ought especially to be sought there where the title of folly