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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing

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