| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ambition | Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. |
| Children | Children have more need of models than critics. |
| Consistency | Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. |
| Education | 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. |
| Fate | Chance generally favors the prudent. |
| Generosity | Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. |
| Genius | Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. |
| Imagination | He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert. |
| Inspirational | Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. |
| Labor | Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. |
| Learning | He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. |
| Life | Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together. |
| Literature | If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. |
| Maxim | They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. |
| Monument | Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. |
| Opinion | Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. |
| Poetry | You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. |
| Questions | Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. |
| Teaching | To teach is to learn twice. |
| Vengeance | Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. |
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