For scant means of acquiring knowledge are scattered among the members of the body; and many are the evils that break in to blunt the edge of studious thought. And gazing on a little portion of life that is not life, swift to meet their fate, they rise and are borne away...
Conversation
...like smoke, persuaded only of that on which each one chances as he is driven this way and that, but the whole he vainly boasts he has found.
#Empedocles