It is a difficult task Oh citizens to make speeches to the belly which has no ears.

Plutarch
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  1. Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

  2. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

  3. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. “For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire...

  4. Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

  5. It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

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