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There is no darkness but ignorance
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune
It is better to be unborn than untaught: for ignorance is the root of misfortune
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it
It is only the ignorant who despise education
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy
The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest
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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."
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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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