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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”

“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”

“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”

“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.”

“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one workman.”

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”

“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.”

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”

“Character is simply habit long continued.”

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”

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“Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.”


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“Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.”

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”

“Ideas are the source of all things.”

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

“If I am right, certain professors of education must be wrong when they say that they can put a knowledge into the soul which was not there before, like sight into blind eyes.”

“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”

“Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil.”

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill, we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

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“In order for someone to speak with some propriety about the communist movement, they must have previously studied the following things:

1. The classics of Marxism: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong.
2. The most important Marxist philosophers: Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Althusser.
3. 'Main Currents of Marxism', by Leszek Kolakowski.
4. Some good history and sociology books about the revolutionary movement in general, such as 'Fire in the Minds of Men', by James H. Billington, 'The Pursuit of the Millenium', by Norman Cohn, 'The New Science of Politics', by Eric Voegelin.
5. Good books on the history of communist regimes written from a non-apologetic point of view.
6. Books by the most famous critics of Marxism, like Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises, Raymond Aron, Roger Scruton, Nicolai Berdiaev and so many others.
7. Books about the communist strategy and tactics on their rise to power, about the underground activities of the movement in the West and chiefly about the 'active measures' (disinformation, agents of influence), like those by Anatolyi Golitsyn, Christopher Andrew, John Earl Haynes, Ladislaw Bittman, Diana West.
8. The largest number possible of testimonies by former communist agents and militants who recall their experience in service of the movement or communist governments, such as Arthur Koestler, Ian Valtin, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Whittaker Chambers, David Horowitz.
9. High-value testimonies about human condition in socialist societies, like those by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Vladimir Bukovski, Nadiejda Mandelstam, Alexander Soljenítsin, Richard Wurmbrand.

This is a reading program that can be accomplished in four or five years by a good student. I do not know, either in the Brazilian right or left, anyone, absolutely anyone, who has accomplished it.”


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