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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Quintilian

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
To 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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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