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In general it may be said that example operates as a means of promoting the good and the bad qualities of a character, but it does not create them; and so it is that Seneca's maxim, velle non discitur will cannot be learned also holds good here.
His belief in these was so intense and unqualified that he could not conceive of others not feeling the furtherance of them to be a duty binding also upon them. Velle non discitur, as Seneca says: Strength of desire must be born with a man, it can't be taught.
Goethe quotes his docendo discitur, but these gentlemen do not seem to know how small my learning is. To Lotte he declared that he should feel ridiculous in the new situation. 'Many a student will perhaps know more history than the professor.
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