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Even at a cocktail party, it is not easy to break into the conversation of people who already know one another well. How immeasurably more difficult, then, it is to break into the conversation of a long line of philosophers in apostolic succession that began with Plato.

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Ideally, society is a dance, and every society has its own choreography that is passed down the generations.

To forgive is to erase a past, depriving it of its power to stain the present.

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Experience takes time and calls for patience.

Unlike a small village, the city speaks loud and clear of history, of being the terminus of a long, cumulative process.

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