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The sweetest consolation
“there is no consolation so sweet in the loss of our friends as that which comes to us from the knowledge of not having forgotten to tell them anything” II.8. “Of the affection of fathers for their children” (p.349)
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On being naturally inclined to society
“There is nothing to which nature seems to have inclined us more than to society.” I.28 “Of friendship” (p.165) [People are naturally drawn to and in need of connection with other people.]
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Education is not regurgitation
“Let him be asked for an account not merely of the words of his lesson, but of its sense and substance, and let him judge the profit he has made by the testimony not of his memory, but of his life. Let him be made to show what he has just learned in a hundred…