et quia tenuia sunt, nisi quae contendit, acute cernere non potis est animus; proinde omnia quae sunt praeterea pereunt, nisi si ad quae se ipse paravit.
And because they are thin, the mind cannot perceive any sharply except those which it strains itself to see; therefore all the others perish except those for which it has prepared itself.
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