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From #Tennyson's poem Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. The truly wise learn from the foolish mistakes they've made.

From the #Trachiniae of #Sophocles. When it comes to future prosperity, there's room for prudent doubt. #Tragedy

From the Life of #Cato. "For wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise"

From #Aristotle's #Metaphysics. Truth is the conformity of thought and speech to reality. #Philosophy #Truth

According to Maritain, secular forms of humanism end up anti-human because they refuse to recognize the whole person.

What makes a true philosopher? Francesco Petrarca answers. #Philosophy #Petrarch #Renaissance

Taken from his famous oration against Timarchus, because of which Aeschines cleared himself of treason charges.

Taken from #FathersAndSons, the classic #RussianNovel by #Turgenev. Spoken by Pavel Petrovich to Bazarov, a Nihilist.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. #CSLewis

We make men without chests & expect of them virtue & enterprise. We laugh at honour & are shocked to find traitors in our midst. #CSLewis

When the physicist poses the question, "What does it mean to do physics?" ... [he] is not "doing physics." #JosefPieper

"To love is to will the good of the other." #Aquinas #StThomasAquinas

We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. #GKChesterton

Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. Ethics and Aesthetics are one. #Wittgenstein

"To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil." ~ Jean-Paul #Sartre

"It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake." #GeoffreyChaucer ("Troilus and Criseyde", Book 3, Line 764)

The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe & is resplendent in one part more & in another less. #DanteAlighieri

"...for wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder." #Plato, #Theaetetus

"Philosophy offers not wisdom but the love of wisdom." #Petrarch

Stop quoting laws; we carry weapons! ~ Gnaius Pompeius Magnus (#Plutarch's "Life of #Pompey")