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  1. We do not see Nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. 💙 ~ William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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  2. A quotation from Montaigne

    I only quote others the better to quote myself.
     
    [Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d’autant plus me dire.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25), “Of the Education of Children [De l’institution des enfans]” (1579) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.26]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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  3. "No one is wilfully evil. It is enough for a man to know what is good for him necessarily to do it."
    For Socrates, the authentic practice of virtue presupposes knowing the essence of the Good.
    "Know thyself" is therefore an invitation that means "discover the good that is in you; listen to the divinity that speaks to your conscience".

    #moralBeauty #moralGround #highGround #idealism #utopia #vertue #justness #philosophy #philo #studies #Good #goodness #quotation #quotations #citation #Socrates