"For one day spent well, and agreeably..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
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“Many a good man I have seen go under.”
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“Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.”
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“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.”
“Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.”
“The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.”