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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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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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth

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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