"I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion."

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Source : Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.201, Routledge

Nicolas Malebranche

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“Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as beautifully composed (what does that mean anyway).”
“No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.”
“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
“Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.”
“Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.”
“I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer.”
“A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster." Dan yawned. "Doesn't this remind you of the clue hunt? You knowâ€“you telling me a bunch of boring stuff, and me not listening?”
“England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.28, Arcade Publishing

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