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Today we receive three different or opposing educations: that of our fathers, that of our schoolmasters, and that of the world. What we are told by the last upsets all the ideas of the first two. This comes partly from the opposition there is for us between the ties of religion and those of the world, a thing unknown among the ancients

Their education had another advantage over ours, it was never contradicted. In the last year of his life, Epaminondas said, heard, saw, and did the same things as at the time that he was first instructed.

Most of the ancient people's lives in governments that had virtue for their principle, and when that virtue was in full force, things were done on those governments that we no longer see and that astonish our small souls

There is nothing in monarchy that laws, religion, and honor prescribe so much as obedience to the wills of the prince, but this honor dictates to us the the prince should never prescribe an action that dishonors us because it would make us incapable of serving him

This eccentric honor shapes the virtues into what it wants and as it wants: on its own, it puts rules on everything prescribed to us; according to its fancy, it extends or limits our duties, whether their source be religion, politics, or morality

Honor, meddling in everything, enters into all the modes of thought and all the ways of feeling and even directs the principles.

Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want

In these modern times a lot more of the clergy are becoming accepting of the LGBTQ community

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Why do people compare everything to 1930's Germany?