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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will…
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On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of…
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A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if…
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To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
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Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil…
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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others…
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Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the…
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For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
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But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not…
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But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a…
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At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself…
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns…
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If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know…
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If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful…
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Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go…
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Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last…
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