“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.” Republic
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. The Fifth Mountain
Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way. Man and His Symbols
Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee. Book VII
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