“He who grasps everything himself is best of all; he is noble also who listens to one who has spoken well; but he who neither grasps it himself nor takes to hear what he hears from another is a useless man.”
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“We cannot learn without pain.”
“What prompts us to action is desire; and desire has three forms—appetite, passion, wish.”