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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another
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
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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