Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QUINTILIANA 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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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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