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

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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
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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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

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