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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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