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“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.”

Source: Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical

“In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.”

Thinking Should Writing Age Mankind Youth Satire Apology

Author:Horace

“The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.”

Years Firsts Lasts Mankind Youth Miserable

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.”

Thinking Mean War Fighting Virtue Growing Mankind Youth Killing Entertainment Honour Heroic Mislead Slaughter Conqueror Butchers Renown

Book:Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition

Source: Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition

“Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.”

Thinking Mankind Youth Conception

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.”

Men World Moments Mankind Youth Property Release Surprising Delay Alas Fangs Unstable Grinning

Author:Plautus

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

Has Beens Art Faith Education Fate Mankind Youth Depends Educational Convinced Empires Governing Famous Inspirational Value Of Education Education For All Great Empires Classical Education

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”

Men Action Sin Common Wise Mankind Youth Fool Ought Ashamed Temper Irrational Repent

Book:Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe