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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
“When I am forgotten, as I shall be, and sleep in dull cold marble, say, I taught thee.”
“The next day is a powerless nothing if you yourself do not give it your strength.”
“Anxiety strives to become fear, because fear can be met by courage.”
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
“With every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have for making a proper use of it.”
“Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot.”
“Anytus and Melitus may kill me indeed, but hurt me they cannot.”
“Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet.”
“No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”