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If (as those of us have been led to do who make a study of ourselves) each man, on hearing a wise maxim, immediately looked to see how it properly applied to him, he would find that it was not so much a pithy saying as a whiplash applied to the habitual stupidity of his faculty of judgement.
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Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own:
Only fools have made up their minds and are certain: [Al] Che non men che saper dubbiar m’aggrada. [For doubting pleases me as much as knowing.]
We are not bringing up a soul; we are not bringing up a body: we are bringing up a man. We must not split him into two.
To see his deeds is to hear his word: to hear his word is to see his deeds.
