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

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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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Accompany Average Impression Support
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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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
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
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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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

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