There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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