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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

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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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

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