Education

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To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school
Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant
Only the educated are free
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
Restraint of discipline, emulation, examples of virtue and of justice, form the education of the world
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age
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