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On Solitude, another pearl. a) withdrawing without "lightening one's soul" is actively detrimental to your welfare and b) one cannot simply withdraw into themselves before learning to feel shame and respect for themselves.

Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.

—Horace

It is reason and wisdom that take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.

On Solitude>, another pearl. a) withdrawing without "lightening one's soul" is actively detrimental to your welfare and b) one cannot simply withdraw into themselves before learning to feel shame and respect for themselves.

Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
—Horace

It is reason and wisdom that take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.

If the numerous pearls of pedagogical wisdom in “On Educating Children” seem obvious or self-evident, one should understand this to be a reflection of privilege.

Onto “That it is Madness to Judge the True and the False from our own Capacities”!

Quotable moments and inscrutable Latin galore!

vitamque sub dio trepidis agat In rebus.

“It is intolerable for any but great and illustrious souls to give themselves unaccustomed prerogatives”