What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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