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

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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering

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

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