He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
QUINTILIANMedicine for the dead is too late.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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