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

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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron

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

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