It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name. (Friedrich Schiller)

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.

Friedrich Schiller

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