Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.Plato
The wise are doubtful.
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Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
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