Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind. Fragment
Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. The Name of The Rose
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined. Book VII
"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." The Analects of Confucius
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