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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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