"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might ha...

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"Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
"There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, correspondin...
"One man cannot practice many arts with success.
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
"They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.