Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
From Desiderius Erasmus
Fortune favors the audacious.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Your library is your paradise.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
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