There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
QUINTILIANThe 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 obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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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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