The scoffer, the
liar, the hypocrite, and the slanderer can have no share in the future
world of bliss. To slander is to commit murder.
Cold water morning and evening is better than all the cosmetics.
The question is asked, "Why is man born with hands clinched, but has his
hands wide open in death?" And the answer is: "On entering the world,
man desires to grasp everything; but when leaving it he takes nothing
away."
Two dry logs and one wet; the dry ones kindle the wet.
He who seeks for a faultless brother will have to remain brotherless.
A town which has no school should be abolished.
Jerusalem was destroyed because the instruction of the young was
neglected.
He who instructs a child is as if he had created it.
The teachers are the guardians of the State.
Learn first and philosophize afterward.
To what may he be compared who teaches a child? To one who writes on
clean paper; and to what may he be compared who teaches an old man? To
one who writes on blotted paper.
Be eager to acquire knowledge; it does not come to thee by inheritance.
Four dispositions are found among those who sit for instruction, before
the wise, and they may be respectively compared to a sponge, a funnel, a
strainer, and a sieve; the sponge imbibes all, the funnel receives at
one end and discharges at the other, the strainer suffers the wine to
pass through, but retains the lees, and the sieve recovers the bran, but
retains the fine flour.
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