To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
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Permalink to quote #17 The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
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