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For God's sake, I beseech you, give it [the study of Geometry] up. Fear it no less than sensual passions because it, too, may take all your time, and deprive you of your health, peace of mind, and happiness in life.
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
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...all our basic convictions must be tested and transmuted in the crucible of experience -- and sometimes, the more bitter the experience, the more valid the purified belief.
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If an age is imbued with an error, some always derive advantage from the error, while the rest have to suffer from it. In the Middle Ages the error was general among Christians that the church must have all power, or the supreme lordship on earth; the hierarchs believed in this "truth" not less than the laymen, and both were spellbound in the like error. But by it the hierarchs had the advantage of power, the laymen had to suffer subjection. However, as the saying goes, "one learns wisdom by suffering"; and so the laymen at last learned wisdom and no longer believed in the medieval "truth."
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If we do not find pleasant things we shall at least find new things.
Chronology :
April 12, 2020 : Suffering -- Added.
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