"I Remember, I Believe," The Pursuit of Justice (1964)
“A man must rate public and permanent, above private and fleeting advantages and study how to render his benefaction most useful, rather than how he may bestow it with least expense.”
Letter 18, 5.
Letters, Book VII
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Oportet privatis utilitatibus publicas, mortalibus aeternas anteferre, multoque diligentius muneri suo consulere quam facultatibus.
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