Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANNothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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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Usage is the best language teacher.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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