"Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking."
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"What should be shrunken must first be stretched."
"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."
"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."
"Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?"
"Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects."
"It were not best that we should all think alike."
"They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!"
"You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength."
"He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold."
"He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]"
"The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole."
"It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?"
"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."
"Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'"
"Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform."
"We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him."
"We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living"
"Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family."