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- Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
- He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
- The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
- He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
- Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
- The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
- I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
- There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
- So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality…
- The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
- I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to…
- Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible…
- Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had…
- Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
- No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
- A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
- Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
- Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
- The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
- Love is a serious mental disease.
- In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill...…
- Truth is its own reward.
- The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
- I have good hope that there is something after death.
- Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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