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1. "Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

2. "At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

3. "...There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

4. "Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

5. "God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

6. "Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

7. "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

8. "It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

9. "If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

10. "For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?" ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

11. "On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

12. "The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

13. "And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

14. "Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

15. "A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

16. "We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever gifts you may, with premeditation, select, these same you may have and possess through your own judgement and decision. The nature of all other creatures is defined and restricted within laws which We have laid down; you, by contrast, impeded by no such restrictions, may, by your own free will, to whose custody We have assigned you, trace for yourself the lineaments of your own nature [...]. We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer. It will be in your power to descend to the lower, brutish forms of life; you will be able, through your own decision, to rise again to the superior orders whose life is divine." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

17. "To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

18. "Se, joka pakotetaan antautumaan, saa voittajaltaan palveluksia: tappion kärsinyt palaa kotiin rikastuneena, siis oppineempana, ja hän on paremmin varustautunut tulevia koitoksia varten." ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

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He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He'd been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had grown up in poverty, telling stories, often, of extending a chicken to its fullest capacity, so as soon as a restaurant served his dish, he would promptly cut it in half and ask for a to-go container. Portions are too big anyway, he'd grumble, patting his waistline. He'd only give away his food if the corners were cleanly cut, as he believed a homeless person would just feel worse eating food with ragged bitemarks at the edges – as if, he said, they are dogs, or bacteria. Dignity, he said, lifting his half-lasagna into its box, is no detail."
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