Quod tanto impendio absconditur etiam solummodo demonstrare destruere est
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"When a thing is hidden away with so much pains, merely to reveal it is to destroy it." Latin: "Quod tanto impendio absconditur etiam solummodo demonstrare destruere est." --Tertullian, epigraph |
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"Quod tanto impendio absconditur etiam solummodo demonstrare destruere est" is a dictum by Tertullian. It is found as an epigraph to Gabalis.
"When a thing is hidden away with so much pains, merely to reveal it is to destroy it."
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