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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

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The God of Love lives in a state of need.

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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

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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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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

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