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“You want to have proven to you that the soul is imperishable and immortal, and you think that the philosopher who is confident in death has but a vain and foolish confidence, if he thinks that he will fare better than one who has led another sort of life, in the world below, unless he can prove this; and you say that the strength and divinity of the soul, and of her existence prior to our becoming men, does not necessarily imply her immortality. ...For any man, who is not devoid of natural feeling, has reason to fear, if he has no knowledge or proof of the soul's immortality. That is what I suppose you to say, Cebes, which I designedly repeat, in order that nothing may escape us...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
Book III • Marcus Aurelius““Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.””
Leo Africanus • Amin Maalouf“It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“ “To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.””
The Cherry Orchard • Anton Chekhov