“First of all, there would be Holy Scriptures…Next, the best commentaries…Then books that would be helpful to learning the languages, such as the poets and orators, regardless of whether they were pagan or Christian, Greek, or Latin, for it is from such books that one must learn grammar. After that would come books on the liberal arts and all the other arts…Among the foremost would be the chronicles and histories…for they are a wonderful help in understanding and guiding the course of events, especially for observing the marvelous works of God.”
“There is a ‘pure pleasure’ a man gets from having studied, even though he never holds office of any kind, how at home he can read all kinds of things, talk and associate with educated people, and travel, and do business in foreign lands.”
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