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The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Maimonides
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Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.465, Behrman House, Inc
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.