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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

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It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.

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But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

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For when you have once begun to serve the Goddess, you will then in a still higher degree enjoy the fruit of your liberty.

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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
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Born: 125
Died: 170 (aged 45)
Bio: Apuleius was a Latin-language prose writer. He was a Numidian Berber who lived under the Roman Empire and was from Madaurus.
Known for:
  1. The Golden Ass
  2. Cupid and Psyche
  3. La favola di Amore e Psiche
  4. The tale of Cupid and Psyche
  5. Apologia (De Magia)

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