Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANFor 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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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