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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.Horace
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.Seneca
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.Juvenal
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.Sir Francis Bacon
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.Hilton Kramer
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.Will Durant
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.The Mishnah
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.William Shakespeare
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, Sec. 297