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"Let us consider" wisdom "first".
"Can we be wiser by reason of something which we have forgotten? Unquestionably we can. A man who dies after acquiring knowledge and all men acquire some might enter his new life, deprived indeed of his knowledge, but not deprived of the increased strength and delicacy of mind which he had gained in acquiring the knowledge. And if so, he will be wiser in the second life because of what has happened in the first."