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[A] "If God had held all truth in his right hand, and in his left the ever-living desire for truth, although with the condition that I should remain in error for ever, and if he should say to me 'choose,' I should humbly incline towards his left, and say, 'Father, give: pure truth is for thee alone?'"—Wolferbuttel Fragments. See Zimmern's Life of Lessing, p. 361.

[B] Plato's Republic II. 380, 381.

[C] See Appendix I.

[D]

"'Wilt thou learne of sterres ought?'

'Nay, certainly,' quod I, 'right naught.'

'And why?' quod he. 'For I am old.'"

House of Fame, B. II, 487.