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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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Humility is truth.
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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