If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Proverbs 9:12 KJV
New International Version
If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
Proverbs 9:12 NIV
- Thomas Aquinas (plato.standford.edu)
Between antiquity and modernity stands Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225–1274). The greatest figure of thirteenth-century Europe in the two preeminent sciences of the era, philosophy and theology, he epitomizes the scholastic method of the newly founded universities.