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"Abstinence from low pleasures is the only means of meriting or
of obtaining the higher."
"Praise keeps good men good."
"The highest price we can pay for a thing is to ask for it."
"There is a gloom in deep love as in deep water; there is a
silence in it which suspends the foot; and the folded arms, and the
dejected head are the images it reflects. No voice shakes its
surface; the Muses themselves approach it with a tardy and a timid
step, and with a low and tremulous and melancholy song."
"Anaxagoras is the true, firm, constant friend of Pericles; the
golden lamp that shines perpetually on the image I adore."
[The Letter of Pericles to Aspasia in reply to her request to
be permitted to visit Xeniades.]
"Do what your heart tells you; yes, Aspasia, do _all_ it tells
you. Remember how august it is. It contains the temple, not only of
Love, but of Conscience; and a whisper is heard from the extremity of
one to the extremity of the other.
"Bend in pensiveness, even in sorrow, on the flowery bank of
youth, whereunder runs the stream that passes irreversibly! let the
garland drop into it, let the hand be refreshed by it -- but -- may
the beautiful feet of Aspasia stand firm.
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