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As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

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Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.

The length of lifetakes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.

Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time.

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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