# Greek Foolosophy

> [...] Therefore, my king, in so far as you have the power (who a
> re all powerful), keep the discourse uninterpreted, lest mysteri
> es of such greatness come to the Greeks, lest the extravagant, f
> laccid and (as it were) dandified Greek idiom extinguish somethi
> ng stately and concise, the energetic idiom of <Egyption> usage.
> For the Greeks have empty speeches, O king, that are energetic o
> nly in what they demonstrate, and this is the philosophy of the
> Greeks, an inane foolosophy of speeches. We, by contrast, use no
> t speeches but sounds that are full of action. [...]
>
> Corpus Hermeticum XVI

Sorry. I can't stop laughing lol.