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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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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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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time

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