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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
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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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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