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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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