Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.