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

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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue

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

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