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Plautus, full name Titus Maccius Plautus NULL
'Tis better to profit by a horrible example than to be one.
We are too apt to love Praise, but not to Deserve it.
Plautus, full name Titus Maccius Plautus NULL
All men love themselves.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms, and you never see anything very great which is not, at the same time, horrible in some respect... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than partyline line or public opinion; when the mood of Beethoven or Bach will be the mood of your total existence; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians.
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When you love you are not wise: when you are wise you do not love.
The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God. Know thyself, that thou mayest know God; and know God, that thou mayest love him and be like him. In the one thou art initiated into wisdom; and in the other perfected in it.
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