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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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Personal Development
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Personal Development
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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Personal Development
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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Personal Development
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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Personal Development
"Let no such man be trusted."
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Personal Development
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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Personal Development
"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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Personal Development
"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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Personal Development
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
Creativity
"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
Education
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Peace
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
Happiness
"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
Education
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
Evil
"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
Life
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
Education
"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
Life
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.""
Success
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