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Thomas More
Nicholas of Cusa
Marsilio Ficino
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

Thomas More
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For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a flame. When it is excited by admiration, then it grows, just as if the wind entering into a fire excited its potential to actuality. If we apprehend the works of God, we marvel at eternal wisdom.

Nicholas of Cusa
Nicholas of Cusa
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Our beneficent Creator is desirous, that, as he originally favoured human nature with longevity, we should all enjoy the full advantage of his intentions, knowing, that when a man has passed seventy, he may be exempt from the sensual strivings, and govern himself entirely by the dictates of reason.

Luigi Cornaro
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But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino
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Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

Wang Yangming

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