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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle

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