Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIANVerse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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