Coordinate term: phialide

[W]e see that intellectual pursuits always end with question marks. The curse of learning is that it leaves us with no answers to the questions that matter the most. That's because the answers to our existential questions are not found under the sun.

Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.

This passage is virtually the peroration of the Ethics; the few paragraphs that follow are concerned with the transition to politics.