Wise men are instructed by reason men of less understanding, by experience the most ignorant, by necessity the beasts, by nature.
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... for until that God who rules all the region of the sky ... has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....Marcus Tullius Cicero
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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Philosophy is the true mother of science.
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