A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
QUINTILIANBy writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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