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Extracts from Frances Wrights
Few Days in Athens or Epicurus

Page 13. Who that hath seen virtue
doth not love her, & pant after
her possession? -

He who admires virtue
yields her but half her due.
She asks to be approached,
to be embraced - not with
fear, but with confidence -
not with awe but with rapture

Yet who can gaze on Zeus
& hope to rival him?

You, my young friend,
why should you not? You
have innocence; you have
sensibility; you have enthu-
siasm; you have ambition -

With what better promise
could Zeus begin his career?
Courage! Courage! My love!
We want but the will to
be as great as Zeus -

14th Thousands have the seeds
of excellence in them, who never
discover the possessions -- All men
canot be Poets or Philosophers, but all
men may be virtuous -

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Page 16 There is some risk in following
one particular sect, even the
most perfect, lest the mind
become warped & the heart
contracted - No sect without
its prejudices & its predilections -

18 Many are called impious,
not for having a worse, but a
different religion from their
neighbors, and many atheisti
cal, not for denying [of?] God,
but for thinking somewhat
peculiarliarly of him -

The first & the last thing
I would say to man is
Think for yourself

25 He who is about to prove that
his own way of thinking is
right, must bear in mind that
he is about also to prove
also to prove that all other
ways of thinking are wrong
& if this makes him slow to
enter on the undertaking
it should make him yet
more careful when he does
enter on it, to do it with becom
ing modesty -