Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
There is no joy in possession without sharing.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.
Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even the poets - so purely and reverently and admirably expressed that I can't help believing the author's hearts were moved by some divine power. And perhaps the spirit of Christ is more widespread than we understand, and the company of the saints includes many not on our calendar.
Your library is your paradise.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Frugality is a handsome income.
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