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.
QUINTILIANShe abounds with lucious faults.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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