• Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 58 votes · 102 reads

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• Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  4.0 · 8 votes · 141 reads

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• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 84 reads

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• He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 34 votes · 8 reads

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• I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.1 · 10 votes · 163 reads

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• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

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  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  American1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 31 reads

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• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 60 reads

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• I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 41 reads

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• If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 35 votes · 149 reads

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• If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 149 reads

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• In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.1 · 7 votes · 193 reads

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• In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 42 votes · 17 reads

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• Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 151 reads

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• It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 39 reads

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• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 13 reads

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• It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 83 reads

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• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 105 reads

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• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.9 · 13 votes · 107 reads

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 194 reads

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• Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 60 votes · 155 reads

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• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 43 reads

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• Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-g

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 135 reads

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• Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 133 reads

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• Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 94 reads

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• Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

  

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 16 votes · 19 reads

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 168 reads

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• Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 58 votes · 150 reads

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• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 61 reads

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• Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.2 · 38 votes · 20 reads

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• Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams -can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 73 reads

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• Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.5 · 17 votes · 92 reads

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• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  3.7 · 63 votes · 175 reads

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• One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 40 votes · 19 reads

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• Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 32 reads

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• Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 32 votes · 6 reads

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• Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 49 votes · 3 reads

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• Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 15 votes · 167 reads

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• Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.5 · 54 votes · 17 reads

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• The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 36 votes · 99 reads

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• The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 52 votes · 34 reads

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• The Brain is wider than the sky-.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.3 · 31 votes · 152 reads

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• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 38 reads

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• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 140 reads

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• The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.3 · 16 votes · 31 reads

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• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 8 votes · 16 reads

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• The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 89 reads

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  

  Henri Bergson

  PhilosopherFrench1859 · 19th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 20 reads

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• The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as som

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  Günter Grass

  AuthorGerman1927 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 27 reads

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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.5 · 28 votes · 4 reads

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• The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 38 reads

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• The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 134 reads

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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 42 votes · 175 reads

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• The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 56 reads

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 79 reads

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• The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 39 votes · 168 reads

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 110 reads

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• The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 35 reads

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• The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 23 votes · 113 reads

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• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.7 · 47 votes · 139 reads

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• The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 11 votes · 188 reads

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• The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 49 votes · 133 reads

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• The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 58 votes · 19 reads

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• The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  5.0 · 45 votes · 143 reads

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• The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 42 votes · 127 reads

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• The wavering mind is but a base possession.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.2 · 44 votes · 32 reads

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• There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 155 reads

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• There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.0 · 8 votes · 126 reads

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• There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.0 · 55 votes · 81 reads

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• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 142 reads

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• Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 71 reads

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• We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 56 reads

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• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.5 · 34 votes · 175 reads

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• We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 79 reads

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• We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 177 reads

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• We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  3.5 · 23 votes · 106 reads

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• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 164 reads

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• What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 0 reads

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• What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 31 votes · 178 reads

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• What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 41 votes · 137 reads

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• Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 25 votes · 10 reads

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