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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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