Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
QUINTILIANThe pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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