Quotes by Apáczai Csere János

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Where outward actions are without inward benevolence, there is hypocrisy and only a shadow of good behavior.

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Set a goal that no one has ever reached. Because it is a beautiful thing to arrive with mediocre learned people, but it is even more beautiful to be left as far as the most learned goat, to pass everything until the most beautiful pen, and to stand in a part of the great mountain, where no one has ever been able to pass with his own strength, and I never will pass.

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Wise spiritual greatness bases true glory on deeds, not on fickle fame: it wants to be a prince rather than appear to be one.

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We were born in a time when, in the face of the greatest ignorance, wisdom and its teachers are not respected at all. But should we despair? Should we leave school? Shouldn't the future be taken into account? No! Virtue must be pursued through disgrace and shame.

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Be tired while you are in this transitory life, after your death you can surely rest enough.

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Have a stone tablet or notebook that you carry with you day and night, on which, if something like that comes to your mind at night, write it down, and when you get out of bed in the morning, write it down better, similarly, if you are walking in the woods or fields.