One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
QUINTILIANSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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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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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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