To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
QUINTILIANIt is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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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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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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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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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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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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