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True love for God is completed when there is no more searching for him, for the sake of nobility, goodness, wisdom, holiness, and perfection; he is the God. - Albertus Magnus “Paradisus animae, sive Tractatus de virtutibus” (“Paradise of the Soul”) (13th century)

It is fit that they who desire for the good of mankind, to commit to memory things most profitable, well weighed and approved, should make trial of all things. - Cicero

That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience. - Walter Russell

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. - Edmund Burke

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return. - John H. Secondari

It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune. - Sun Tzu

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.“ - Psalm 91: 1-2