The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
QUINTILIANThough ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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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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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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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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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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