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All the ancient legislators were poets: it is proven from the laws they consecrated through Poetry... As long as the human race lives, this noble faculty of its will also live, against those who say that its power has passed; its power is planted in the heart of man, and when its affections, its needs and desires will change, it will always be forward to ennoble them, to idealize them...

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All the ancient legislators were poets: it is proven from the laws they consecrated through Poetry... As long as the human race lives, this noble faculty of its will also live, against those who say that its power has passed; its power is planted in the heart of man, and when its affections, its needs and desires will change, it will always be forward to ennoble them, to idealize them...

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Romanian

"Toți legiuitorii vechimii au fost poeți: se dovedește din legiuirile ce au consacrat prin Poezie... Cât va trăi neamul omenesc va trăi și această nobilă facultate a sa, împotriva celor ce zic că a trecut puterea ei; puterea ei este împlântată în inima omului, și când afecțiunile ei, trebuințele și dorințele lui se vor schimba, ea va fi totdeauna înaintemergător spre a le înnobila, a le idealiza..."

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