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Medicine for the dead is too late.

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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right

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