The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life should otherwise have been too dull and inactive, that creator, who out of clay first tempered and made us up, put into the composition of our humanity more than a pound of passions to an ounce of reason; and reason he confined within the narrow cells of the brain, whereas he left passions the whole body to range in. Farther, he set up two sturdy champions to stand perpetually on guard, that reason might make no assault, surprise, nor inroad ; anger, which keeps its station in the fortress of the heart ; and lust, which like the signs Virgo and Scorpio, rules the appetites and passions.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
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When I get a little money I buy books, and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
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Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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Your library is your paradise.
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