A liar must have a good memory.
QUINTILIANThe 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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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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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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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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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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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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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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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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