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“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”
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“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
― Works and Days and Theogony
― Works and Days and Theogony
“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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