Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
QUINTILIANFear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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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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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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