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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

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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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary

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