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"The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body."
"Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences."
"The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable."
"The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is."
"Love is a serious mental disease."
"He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action."
"Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year."
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity."
"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
"A house that has a library in it has a soul."
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
"If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds."
"Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given."
"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."
"The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not."
"I prefer nothing, unless it is true."
"We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year"