God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
QUINTILIANWhere evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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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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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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