Medicine for the dead is too late.
QUINTILIANFor all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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