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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

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Ignorance: the root of all evil.

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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

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The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

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