To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANTo 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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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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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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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