Quote #5
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
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- In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
- Believe that you have it, and you have it!
- Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque, ut pecuniam accpero, Graecus primum autores, deinde vestes emam.
- Education is of far greater importance than heredity in forming character.