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"In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection."
"To a good man nothing that happens is evil."
"A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge."
"A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers."
"Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer."
"He whom Love touches not walks in darkness."
"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."
"Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education."
"God is truth and light his shadow."
"Necessity is literally the mother of invention."
"My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth."
"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
"All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy."
"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know."
"Necessity, who is the mother of our invention."
"Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted."
"No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well."
"Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it."
"The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge."
"... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined."