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For the Christian Fathers he was a model of the good pagan. St. Jerome, ashamed of what he felt was an excessive partiality for a heathen author, would undertake a fast, so that he could study Cicero afterwards.
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
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― William Shakespeare
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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― 1984
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”
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The Nobel Prize in Literature
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