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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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We become what we contemplate.

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

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

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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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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

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