"To [man] it is granted to have whatever……" — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
"To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills."
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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17 Quotes by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative,…
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On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every…
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A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do…
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Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and…
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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…
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Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for…
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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…
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But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so…
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At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper…
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God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
— Richard Bach
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living…
— Russell Banks
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
— Tony Blair
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true…
— Caleb Carr
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or…
— Isabel Allende
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they…
— Jeff Sessions
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses…
— Abraham Lincoln
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
— Humphry Davy
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Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse…
— Richard M. Nixon
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