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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

God is truth and light his shadow.

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.