The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.
The lover is moved by the ...
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
