A liar must have a good memory.
QUINTILIANThough ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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