When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
Without duty life is soft and bone less.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
To teach is to learn twice.
The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.
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