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• Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
• Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit…
• We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did,…
• Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb,…
• Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
• A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what…
• Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ...…
• Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

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