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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"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."
"On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life."
"But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel."
"Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant."
"And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all."
"The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants."
"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."
"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"
"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."
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