"But I believed that I had already given sufficient time to
languages, and likewise to the reading of the writings of the ancients, to
their histories and fables. For to hold converse with those of other ages and
to travel, are almost the same thing. It is useful to know something of the
manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct
judgment regarding our own. [Consequently], as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under
the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned the study of
letters, and resolved no longer to seek any other science than the
knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world."
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences. Rene Descartes
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