When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIANWhere evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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