„The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.“

— Confucius

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„But these young scholars who invade our hills,Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,And travelling often in the cut he makes,Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Last night we owned, with looks forlorn,"Too well the scholar knowsThere is no rose without a thorn" —But peace is made! We sing, this morn,"No thorn without a rose!"Our Latin lesson is complete:We've learned that Love is Bitter-Sweet!“
— Lewis Carroll
„We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.“
— Thomas Aquinas