James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
La Harpe
Je jouis des ouvrages qui surpassent les miens—I enjoy works which surpass my own.
On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu’on exagère—We always weaken everything which we exaggerate.
Pour bien instruire, il ne faut pas dire tout ce qu’on sait, mais seulement ce qui convient à ceux qu’on instruit—To teach successfully we must not tell all we know, but only what is adapted to the pupil we are teaching.
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.