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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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