Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

-- Plato

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He was a wise man who invented beer.

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?Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

-- Plato

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