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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

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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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

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