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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

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