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Philosophy instructs us to pay homage to the gods, not through hope or fear, but from veneration of Their superior nature.

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Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. (28)

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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