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

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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical

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