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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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time

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

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