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- We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to…
- Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
- All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
- Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
- To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
- The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
- To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the…
- Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
- This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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