That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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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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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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