An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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