The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANIt is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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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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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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