A liar must have a good memory.
QUINTILIANIt seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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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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A liar should have a good memory.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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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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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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