The advantage of a classical education is that it enables…

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

— Russell Green

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

— Saint Augustine

Not valuing wealth prevents theft.

— Laozi

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not…

— Saint John Chrysostom

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else,…

— Eustace Budgell

“Dave would marvel, “Do people not realize that they are living in the greater Renaissance? Could you imagine how much Isaac Newton would have…

— David Flynn

“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”

— Melissa Wiley

“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Nowadays it seems you learn only what is reasonable and relevant. I went to Rome with a young friend, educated on the latest lines,…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Classical education was only half the old system of European education--below it and above it there was the religious education that was common to…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert…

— Nuno Roque

“When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to concquer. Benefits of a classical education.”

— Hans Gruber

“If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity…

— Ben Sasse