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“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far can one go.”
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far can one go.”
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“For riches, fame, and power, without wisdom and a just method of regulating ourselves and commanding others, a government is full of discredit and insolent arrogance, nor is there any kind of government more deformed than that in which the wealthiest are regarded as the noblest.”
― On the Republic / On the Laws
― On the Republic / On the Laws
“Self-pity [is] one of the most reprehensible sins of the human heart.”
― The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
― The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
“He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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“There might be believed to exist one Universal Monarch in heaven [who] be accounted both king and father of all creatures.”
― On the Republic / On the Laws
― On the Republic / On the Laws
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