For Why Should We Not Admire More

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.

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.

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.

On Man When He Came Into Life The Father Conferred The Seeds Of All Kinds And The Germs Of Every Way Of Life.

The Pythagoreans Degrade Impious Men Into Brutes And, If One Is To Believe Empedocles, Even Into Plants.