Variant Translation: Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already. Book VII
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine. Book II
“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
African and European skulls of half a million years ago were sufficiently similar to skulls of us moderns that they are classified in our species, Homo sapiens, instead. Guns, Germs And Steel
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