Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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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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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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