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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

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But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Beauty, Kept, Vastness, Wish, Wonder, Work
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Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

Bear, Fruit, Grow, Maturity, Men

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Ambition, Highest, Soul, Wish

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

Chooses, Granted, Man, Men, Wills

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

Back, Mediocre, Order, Pride, Think, Thinking

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Aggravation, Believe, Brutes, Men, Plants, Pythagoreans
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