Hamilton Gordon

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    Through Plato Aristotle came to believe in God, but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him, but Aristotle thought God through logically and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
    —Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)

    I should be very willing to redress
    Men’s wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes,
    Had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale
    Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)