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For wisdom, which all humans by nature desire to know, and which they seek with such great longing of the mind, is known in no other way than that it is higher than all knowledge and unsearchable. It is ineffable by all speech, beyond understanding by every intellect, immeasurable by every measure, untouchable by every touch, untastable by every taste, inaudible by every hearing, and invisible by every sight. And because it is inexpressible by all eloquence, no end to these descriptions can be imagined, since that glorious and eternal wisdom, through which, from which, and in which all things exist, is unthinkable by every thought. Wisdom is that which tastes, and nothing is sweeter to the intellect than it. Nor should those be revered who are wise in a worldly way, who speak only with words and not with taste. Those, however, speak of wisdom with taste who, through it, know all things in such a way that to them all things are as nothing. Just as a scent, spreading from a fragrant object and received into another, lures us to run toward it, so eternal and infinite wisdom, since it shines forth in all things, allures our affection by a certain foretaste, so that we are carried toward it with a wonderful desire. For since Wisdom itself is the spiritual life of the intellect, the intellect possesses within itself a certain innate foretaste through which it seeks the fountain of its life with such zeal; for without this foretaste, the intellect would not seek it.