"Paucis libris vir sapiens contentus est, et quanto sapientior, tanto pauciorum codicum est indigus. Egregie autem eruditus in scrinio pectoris libriariam circunfert."

— Mair [Major], John (1467-1550)


Date
1530
Metaphor
"Paucis libris vir sapiens contentus est, et quanto sapientior, tanto pauciorum codicum est indigus. Egregie autem eruditus in scrinio pectoris libriariam circunfert."
Metaphor in Context
Paucis libris vir sapiens contentus est, et quanto sapientior, tanto pauciorum codicum est indigus. Egregie autem eruditus in scrinio pectoris libriariam circunfert.
(f. 163)
Provenance
Reading John Wootton's "Happiness and the Historian," in TLS
Citation
Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Eds. Charles B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, et al. Cambridge UP, 1991. p. 338n.
Date of Entry
01/26/2010

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.