Man is not born, but made.
Homo non nascitur, sed fingitur.

Philosophers
Erasmus
Born 1466 (or 1469) in Rotterdam, Erasmus was the leading humanist of the Northern Renaissance and a Catholic priest. His Praise of Folly and Greek New Testament shaped both biblical scholarship and the Reformation, but.
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Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.
-- Gaius Musonius Rufus
Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.
-- Pythagoras
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.
-- Hypatia
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.
-- Hypatia
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
-- Confucius
Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.
-- Xunzi