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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Children have more need of models than critics.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

To teach is to learn twice.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.