A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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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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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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