A liar ought to have a good memory.
QUINTILIANThat which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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