"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people."
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Source: Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.305, Courier Corporation
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