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Yet, Every Now And Then, There Would Pass A Young Girl, Slender, Fair And Desirable, Arousing In Young Men A Not Ignoble Desire To Possess Her, And Stirring In Old Men Regrets For Ecstasy Not Seized And Now Forever Past.

We Find It Hard To Picture To Ourselves The State Of Mind Of A Man Of Older Days Who Firmly Believed That The Earth Was The Centre Of The Universe, And That All The Heavenly Bodies Revolved Around It. He Could Feel Beneath His Feet The Writhings Of The Damned Amid The Flames; Very Likely He Had Seen With His Own Eyes And Smelt With His Own Nostrils The Sulphurous Fumes Of Hell Escaping From Some Fissure In The Rocks. Looking Upwards, He Beheld ... The Incorruptible Firmament, Wherein The Stars Hung Like So Many Lamps.

I Prefer The Folly Of Enthusiasm To The Indifference Of Wisdom.

Do Not Try To Satisfy Your Vanity By Teaching A Great Many Things. Awaken People's Curiosity. It Is Enough To Open Minds; Do Not Overload Them. Put There Just A Spark. If There Is Some Good Inflammable Stuff, It Will Catch Fire.

Jealousy Is A Virtue Of Democracies Which Preserves Them From Tyrants.