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The best education consists not in being taught but in being inspired

Confidence operates in the realm of the known, courage in the realm of the unknown, the uncertain and the fearsome

Love, in truth, is the child of Poverty and Resource, always in need but always inventive

In the words of Horace, 'Anger is a short-lived madness...'

Inherent in every hope is fear, and in every fear a hope

In the very long term, we tend to get more or less what we deserve -and then, whoever we are, our luck runs out

Today, we seek more and more to exist as independent individuals rather than as a social collective

on the one hand, pride is the most blinding and unforgivable of sins, but, on the other, it is a vector of virtue.