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The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal's paradise.
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We truly know only what we have taught ourselves.
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Insight makes argument ridiculous.
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A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
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What we acquire with joy, we possess with indifference.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.
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When the crowd acclaims its favorites it applauds itself.
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Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
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Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
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It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.
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The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
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If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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They who think they know all, learn nothing.
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Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.
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Wouldst thou bestow some precious gift upon thy fellows, make thyself a noble man.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.
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