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"The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants."
"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."
"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"
"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
"If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth."
"On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life."
"God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom."
"It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself."
"But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness."
"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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