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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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