It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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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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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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