"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."
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"The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings."
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"And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment."
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"Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself."
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"Do not expect justice where might is right."
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"The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God."
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"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."
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"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."
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"There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play."
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"No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated."
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"They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom."
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"Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."
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"Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking."
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"No one can escape his destiny."
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"We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it."
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"In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life."
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"The wisest have the most authority."
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"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related."
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say"
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"Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
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