While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
QUINTILIANWe must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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