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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous read more
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself read more
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?
I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
