Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANWhere evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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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 obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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