"The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers."

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Source : Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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