Since I would rather make of him the child an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to Choose a guide tutor with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
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My trade and my art is living.
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No wind favors him who has no destined port.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
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