... When someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.
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Zum Autor"...And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment..."
"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
"The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price."