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- Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love....
- Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the…
- An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have…
- This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is…
- To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
- It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in…
- The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste…
- A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong