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- Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est) - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
- Robert Hutchins (1899 - 1977)
- Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
- Hesiod (~800 BC)
- Faults are soon copied.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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