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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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

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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