That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIANFear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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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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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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